musicalchairs

Is there specific verse support for the idea of Jesus as husband to individuals? I am only aware of the Christian concept (with Christian Bible support) for Christ as bridegroom of the church, as a whole, not specific marriage of Jesus to individuals.

I was curious about this after reading through holding her head high (or via: amazon.co.uk) by the actress (Northern Exposure, etc), Janine Turner. She was 'deserted' by the father of her now eight year old daughter and writes in the book:

"I would share with her one of my many defining moments as a Christian: I remember one hot summer day, standing in the aisles of my church. I was pregnant. I was with my mother. I had always been a Christian, but now that I was pregnant and alone, I felt the call of Christ assuring me that He was going to be my husband and my daughter's father. I knew He would not forsake us."

She self-id's as Baptist and was raised in that tradition, so I assume (maybe wrongly?) the inerrancy of the Bible is part of this denom, and literal interpretation is part of the beliefs. That's what I've seen at every Baptist church I've attended. So she presumably has a literal verse for the idea that Jesus is her husband?

TIA.

skunker

You are an atheist that goes to Baptist churches?

Btw, i did a search through that entire book and I did not find the quote you posted. Can you specify?

WishboneDawn

Um...I think that's called metaphor. You've got sort of a shaky and convoluted line of reasoning to come up with the idea that it's literal. I reccomend the judicious use of Occam's razor.

musicalchairs

It's been at least a decade, but yes, I've been in some baptist churches. No, I do not attend any church at this time and certainly couldn't sit in a Baptist anything.

My edition of the book is hardcover, and the above quote is on page 314, within the chapter, 'Virtual Conversations'.

Clivedurdle

This is a very important example of what should be called theological evolution.

Other examples immediately come to mind.

Billy Graham's doctrine of hell compared with the classic eternal torment views of for example Jonathan Edwards.

The pre marital sexual behaviour of many people calling themselves xians.


I can see this turning into a new church - possibly a wing of the catholic church - nuns with babies whose second marriage is to Christ.

Are not nuns marriages to Christ - they actually wear wedding rings and St Teresa is probably the type of the marriage union - examples of Jesus being married to individual humans?

Doug Shaver

What WishboneDawn said. It's just Turner's personal metaphor for her relationship with Jesus. It doesn't contradict anything in the Bible, but neither is there anything in the Bible that supports such thinking without a vigorous act of creative imagination.

Clivedurdle

Our father who art in heaven.

Abba...

This makes God the grandaddy! Of is the mafioso term correct? Godfather.

Chili

I am not a Baptist but she called Christ to be her husband and daughter's father and did this rightfully so in Christendom where eternal life belongs the mythology. Jesus is not part of this [in being] and should be left hanging on the cross to avoid this confusion.

ETA, in case you wonder, only eternal life is real wherefore Jesus is not part of it or Catholics would have taken him down long ago and Judaism would have never crucified him to start with. So the paradox is not in the bible but in what readers do with it.