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Originally Posted by Cassidy
"The narrow way is not the ground of oneness, it is the way that leads to life. Our ground is not oneness with the body, it is Christ. Listen to what Paul teaches us in Ephesians 4.1-6"
Ohio,
okay, I did.
Verse 4 says "One Body.."
Verse 5 says "One Lord..."
There are seven ones there in Ephesians 4:1-6 (Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God & Father) and all contribute equally to the ground we stand on as believers.
On what scriptural basis do you eliminate the oneness of the first item listed (the Body) in your statement above?
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Ohio did not deny there was one Body. He denied that "oneness with the Body" was a proper directive. This was my earlier point as well. Oneness with the Body implies you need to always conform to the group at any cost. It also suggests that conforming to the group is the same as conforming to the Lord. It isn't. But this is how the LRC interpreted it.
Accepting there is only one Body is actually liberating, because it establishes that the directives of any subset of the Body (e.g. the LRC) cannot be absolutely binding, because they cannot claim to be the whole Body that presumably (on their part) you need to be one with.