I detect that a viable source of resistance to your ideas is a misunderstanding of unknown tongues. God just can't relieve you when you are so dogmatic about that subject. I will not enter into private daily prayer as though I have come straight from the Throne with all the perfect mind of God to pray to Him. Many things I should pray about are not with solutions God would agree with. That's why I pray in unknown tongues privately at home and on the road, which edifies (builds up) my inner man to be in agreement with the Holy Spirit who always prays best. Your KJV backs that up. I think you ought to believe what the KJV says about that, or abandon the KJV for some anti-tongues version (anti Pentecostal). It won't change your eternal destiny, but could rob you of power.
Contention requiring clarification #1 Are you praying in tongues or is it the "Spirit" praying in tongues? If you use 1 Corinthians 14th chapter, it is Paul prying while he is speaking in tongues that someone else will interpret that tongue so he can understand it and be fruitful to himself. That said, proves tongues are not for private use when Paul taught others to pray that someone else will interpret; otherwise if there was no necessity when done in private use, why for public use?
#2 If still in refusal, since many tongue speakers say tongues self edify and yet the Spirit uses tongues to pray at supposedly His own volition and not because you want to pray in tongues, how do you know what that tongue is doing since that is 2 direction being done here without interpretation to know which direction that tongue is doing; is it to you for self edification or to God in prayer? Now how is that not plain confusion just on the face of that alone and yet we are to abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
#3 When sinners in world's religions, idolatries, and the occult speak in the same ecstatic tongue which is gibberish nonsense which is NOT a language of men BEFORE Pentecost came with God's gift of tongues of other men's lips to speak unto the people, how can you prove that these sinners have repented of those spirits and that tongue if God changes His gift of tongues of foreign language to be like that kind of tongue found in the world before Pentecost?
#4 If we are NOT to believe every spirit but test them by knowing He is in us so that anything coming over us later on in life as a saved believer is NOT the Holy Spirit as per 1 John 4:1-4 KJV for why even the tongues are to be tested in 1 John 4:5-6 KJV because there is that supernatural tongue in the world, how is it that believers want to believe that spirit that came over bringing that kind of tongue is the "Holy Spirit" when God is not the author of confusion in any church or believer?
Secondly, where does Jesus say He is the Bridegroom?
The parable of the ten virgins.
Then there is Revelation's references;
Revelation 21:9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee
the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
What apostle declared Jesus to be our Husband, in the sense of man and wife?
Paul did in Ephesians 5:23. Just in case your Bible version has it different and the site's special feature is not working; here it is in the KJV
Ephesians 5:
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. …31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. KJV
Don't forget John the Baptist's.
John 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
The KJV makes it clear Jesus simply used the Jewish marriage scenario as a basis of a parable about the Kingdom of Heaven. If you accept it literally as a metaphoric parable, then you must also accept every other metaphor of a parable as equal to that. You would have to accept the unjust servant who shook down other borrowers, conspiring to reduce their debts. Do you tell people, when witnessing, you are a bride? If you are a male you might get some resistance based on gender alone. Apparently the time is close when men will applaud that idea. There are elements of the Jewish marriage culture that do a good job of explaining the Christian devotion to Christ. The KJV makes it clear the Bride is the celestial city called New Jerusalem, with large physical dimensions and descriptions, which will be inhabited by the saints of God, including some gentiles before any Jew existed, who are justified by God.
I understand your point of view but hopefully the scriptures I have shown has proven why I believe it is more than just metaphorical since we will be one with God.
John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.