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Jesus the Bridegroom : the Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Foster, Mel;Jesus Christ;Pitre, Brant James is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. Instead, the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding, when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant. To be sure, most Christians are familiar with the apostle Paul's teaching that Christ is the 'Bridegroom' and the Church is the 'Bride'. But what does this really mean? And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you would have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the "great mystery" (Ephesians 5:32)? As Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by

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Author

Foster, Mel;Jesus Christ;Pitre, Brant James

Publisher

The Crown Publishing Group;Tantor Media

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781494500412

Category

religious

Subjects

Christian, Fiction, Religion

Rating

4.54 / 5 (173 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14