What analogy does Les draw between physical marriage and Christ and the Church?
The physical marriage analogy shows the husband as head of the wife, just as Christ is Head of the Church. Wives are subject to husbands as the Church is subject to Christ. Christ, Savior of the body, presents the Church as a glorious, spotless Bride without wrinkle or blemish.
Les teaches that Ephesians 5 draws the analogy between the physical wife and husband and Christ as the Head to the Body of Christ, His Bride. The husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the Head of the Church, and as the Church is subject unto Christ, so wives are to be subject to their husbands. He is also the Savior of the body. Les then points to verse 27, where Christ presents the Body of Christ to Himself as a glorious church, not having spot, wrinkle, or any such thing. He illustrates this with the beautiful white-clad Bride without a wrinkle, saying he has never seen a bride who was not attractive when she put on her wedding gown. That is the picture God is drawing: the Body of Christ as the Bride, white and clean, without wrinkle and without blemish. Verse 28 then returns to the physical analogy of husband and wife.
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What analogy is Les drawing between husband and wife and Christ and the Church?
The analogy is between the physical wife and husband, on the one hand, and Christ as Head to the Body of Christ, which Les views as the Bride, on the other.