Marriage is much easier to understand when seen as the perfect image of Christ's marriage to His bride, the church.
God created marriage to be a mannifesation of His relationship with us. He wanted us to be one with him, just as He and the Father are one. We are one as man and woman, just as we are one with Him. The woman submits to the man as the church submits to Christ. Man lays down his life for his bride just as Christ lays down his life for the church. It's odd to think of the woman as having authority over the man, just as it is odd to think of the church as having authority over Christ.
Physically, water gives life. Dead bodies are dried up and hard. Living things have water in them, are soft and fluid. The woman's body submits to the man's body, who comes into her and gives her his fluid. She can't receive it of her own free will. Similarly, the church submits to the Living Water, which produces spiritual life within the body of the church. The church cannot save itself, or give life to itself of its own free will. It is the will of God that Salvation and new life come into us.
Every miniscule nuance that can be seen between a husband and wife can be seen in the relationship between Christ and His bride, the church.
Please give me some suggestions of peculiarities in marriage, and I'll show you how that aspect of marriage is realized spiritually between Christ and the church.
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