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Jesus created his Church.

“His bride will be those who have chosen/continued in a personal relationship”.

I don’t see ‘personal relationship’ anywhere in scripture. Jesus isn’t your boyfriend.

He does say that he created His Church and that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

“with a temporal institution.”

That’s just it. His Church exists for all times. It is not a temporal institution. Christ founded the Catholic church.

You can keep making your circular argument all you want, but that doesn’t make it biblical.

Jesus died so men can be saved, with two conditions — repentance and faith, which brings one into a “personal relationship” with God, or results in conversion or new birth. If you need, let me know, and I will clarify further and reference scripture.

No, Jesus isn’t my boyfriend, but He is my creator, my brother, my savior and my master, and His Father is my Dad. One day, along with the rest of those who have a personal relationship with Christ, I will constitute His bride, as I now (along with the rest of those who have a personal relationship with Him) constitute His body.

I don’t recall the Bible teaching that Jesus came to found the Roman Catholic church. I do recall it teaching that He came to save men from their sins, and the conditions for that to take place.

You are correct, “the gates of hell will not prevail against Jesus’ church” — those who have a personal relationship with Him.

Daniel 2:34 "You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. 35 "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth...
44 "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45 "Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy."

It's ironic to me that our Protestant friends who hold the Bible as the sole authority on Earth don't see that the Kingdom of God is the Church and the Church is growing to fill the whole world as foretold in Daniel and Revelation. Many of the denominations share a creed in common with us wherein we recall the communion of saints. Well, if we can agree that saints are those in Heaven and Heaven is the Kingdom of God... why can't we agree that we are part of that same Kingdom here on Earth if we are in communion with them?!