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Originally Posted by OBW
You might be right. I did mostly say that you were trying to morph it in, not insist on it.
But the problem even there is that it is the stringing of metaphor after metaphor together to arrive at a construct that is not stated.
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The church is the Body of Christ. This is not a metaphor. Amputation resulting in the amputated member withering and dying is stated several times in the NT.
Once you accept that the church is the Body of Christ there is no construct to refer to the "oneness of the Body". Again, the construct comes when you try to create practices like "keeping the oneness of the Body". I never morphed this or insisted this or defended this.