Since I don't subscribe to the Catholic belief system, much less their
"Bible," we may not get too far discussing this... However to address your
last question about who the Bridegroom and the Bride are... The Bride is the
Church of God. The Church of God is the Body of Believers, not just the
Catholic church. The Bridegroom, That's Jesus.
Jamie
>>> Oh, we could open up a fine can of worms with this topic. The Divine
Wisdom of the so-called Old Testament is feminine. Wisdom 9: 9,10 (Catholic
Bibles):
"With you is Wisdom, she who knows your works,
she who was present when you made the world;
she understands what is pleasing in your eyes
and what agrees with your commandments.
Despatch her from the holy heavens,
send her forth from your throne of glory
to help me and to toil with me
and to teach me what is pleasing to you,
since she knows and understands everything."
Could Wisdom be the Holy Spirit? Wisdom 9: 17,18:
"As for your intention, who could have learnt it, had you not
granted Wisdom
and sent your holy spirit from above?
Thus have the paths of those on earth been straightened
and men been taught what is pleasing to you,
and saved, by Wisdom."
The Catholic Church acknowledges that Divine Wisdom is feminine and
declared in one of the 'bull ineffablis' (?) that DW was Mary. But from
reading what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit and comparing it to what was
written about Wisdom in "Wisdom" and "Ecclesiasticus" not to mention the
whole Bride and Bridegroom thread that runs through the entire book, I think
Wisdom is the Holy Spirit Jesus was talking about.
The Gnostic texts talk about the Divine Sophia (Pistis Sophia) and many
learned people seem to think that Mary was the Divine Sophia. But it
doesn't
fit. Sophia suffered grave humiliation and harm and experienced prolonged
face-in-the-dirt-syndrome. It just doesn't fit with what we know of Mary's
life, IMO.
Anyway, for whatever reasons, I think the Powers-That-Be stripped the
feminine out of the Divinity, or at least out of the Trinity. If the
"Father, Son and the Holy Spirit" are all males, where did the Son come
from?
And who are the Bride and Bridegroom? I think an application of Occam's
Razor is in order here.
Samantha<<<
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