Individual Christians are not spoken of in Scripture as the Bride of Christ. I’m not the Bride of Christ, and neither are you. Not even individual Christian women who might want to think of themselves as the Bride of Christ are the Bride of Christ. Only the Church as a body, as the collection of believers, is called the Bride of Christ.
We can’t just take Biblical imagery, teaching, or terminology and use it however we may want to. We are bound by Scripture, and ignoring how it speaks simply leads to error - or sometimes it reveals problems in us that already exist.
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