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Originally Posted by Drake
Thanks Bible-believer for your reply. I've read and pondered it a few times and cannot disagree with any of it. Not that I was looking to find something to disagree with but rather to see if your understanding of 1 Cor 12:12 was similar to mine. So, rather than presume that it is I'd like to return to that verse and in future posts return to your excellent and relevant points in your reply.
12"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ."
This verse states that our human physical body is like the Christ. We have a head and a body ...so also Christ. His body here refers to His corporate Body... the many members of Christ. The Head (Christ) and His Body (all the believers) are one in the same way that our head and bodies are also one. They are not only connected and attached but also are intrinsically one life and one living.
Do you agree with my understanding of this verse?
Drake
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Notice that your conclusion is nowhere found in 1 Corinthians 12. The full portion of verses that you pulled verse 12 from is about distinctions of members, variety in the body of Christ, and distinctions of gifts.
That's the comparison. That's the metaphor. (The exact opposite of "having no individual distinction" that Witness Lee taught concerning blending using that portion of Scripture, for the record).
If you speak of "intrinsically one life" you are going beyond what scripture says in that portion. "Life" is nowhere mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12. The analogy to the human body is to show the variety of members working together as one, and stops well short of some kind of a head/body shared life.
Our life is hidden with Christ in God. Christ lives in us. But we don't have "the life of Christ", and have to stretch scripture past recognition to make that claim in order to leapfrog into a "four-in-one God". As I mentioned previously in this thread, errors quickly build upon errors.
If you google "we have the life of Christ", most of the search results are LSM related blogs or sites. The others are a small, random scattering of returns. Notice that Galatians 2:20 says that Christ lives in us. This is a completely different thing from the Lee claim that "we have the life of Christ".
Notice that? Lee uses similar sounding biblical words to what is in scripture. But words and grammar mean something, and his juggling the words in a big blur in front of our eyes changes the meaning. Keep your eyes on what the Word says!
Trapped