WE ARE SAVED THROUGH MARRIAGE
Eph 5:
21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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25Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing b her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body,
just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” c 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church .33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Allow me to explain.
Salvation work is from the beginning, explained at the garden of Eden. Eve sinned first (not Adam) but sin came to the world on the account of Adam and not Eve. Why? Because Adam being a man/husband, had authority over the wife, the wife was subordinate to the Husband. Them being one in marriage, God puts accountability on the higher authority and thus sin/death came through Adam and not Eve. Even though each received fleshly punishment for their respective roles, the spiritual sin was on Adam.
In the same manner, righteousness/salvation comes through marriage. Not that the church has done anything good but just like the Adam/Eve story, righteousness is imputed to them when they become one with Christ who has fulfilled all righteousness.
But how do we become one with Christ?
Believing that Christ died for your sins is not the way to become the bride, you must believe in Christ and obey His command to love one another- It is all over the scripture. Obedience is the way, not belief. If we accept that subordinate position and obey our master, then our sins have already been paid for on the cross and His righteousness is imputed on us, yet we are still not the bride until the end. We must persevere so many things in this life and hold on to the
irrevocable promises, then we shall make it to the wedding and be certified as bride in the end, not now.
Anyone who counts themselves as bride now are just like the foolish brides in the bible.
You can also believe in the gospel and have absolute faith in Christ alone, but if you don't love, you are absolutely nothing.
Why have people willfully blinded themselves with this OSAS thing?