The reference in 2 Corinthians is to the particular church in Corinth, which St. Paul fears is not ready for the nuptuals. This does not negate the typology of the Chruch as the Bride of Christ, but rather reinforces it.
Pure conjecture...The very same deficiency was ocurring in the church at Galatia...
2Co 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Gal 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
This does not negate the typology of the Chruch as the Bride of Christ, but rather reinforces it.
The 'church' is not a type of the Bride of Christ...The 'church' (individual believers, parts of the Body of Christ) IS the Bride of Christ, but NOT until later...
Paul knew the wedding wouldn't take place for 2000 years...Neither your Church, nor any Church will be the Bride of Christ, regardless of what the pope says...
The 'church' is individual believers in and outside of Churches thru-out the world that make up the Body of Christ...
The reference in 2 Corinthians is to the particular church in Corinth, which St. Paul fears is not ready for the nuptuals.
So you agree that at that time, the church at Corinth had not been to the Wedding...As I understand it, your church claims to be the present Bride of Christ...When did the Wedding take place??? When was the church at Corinth wed to Jesus??? Was there more than one Wedding???
The bible says the Wedding doesn't take place until ALL of the Christians are in heaven...