My wife is mine by marriage, but she didn’t take my name, she took my father’s name. And when the Church is espoused to Christ she does not take the name of Christ, she takes the name of God because the Church always takes God’s name, and that’s true in a marriage relationship. That is one reason why Jesus came as a man, so that His bride could take the name of His Father and God’s family would be named after Him. Further, that is why more than eleven times in the New Testament the bride of Christ,