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Originally Posted by Drake
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."
Paul uses the physical human body to express the spiritual reality concerning Christ. Our head and body are one by an organic physiology and animated by our human life. Our physical body only functions because of the human life and without it we don't have a functioning body ..... rather there is only a corpse. In Paul's analogy of the human body he did not in this verse use the words "human life" but since he speaks of a functioning body then it is already presumed. A corpse has no ability to function and Paul saw no need to explain here that a human body must have life in order to function.
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Paul's thought here has little to do with dead corpses and those with organic physiology and animated by our human life. You are missing the forest from the trees. You miss the message by doing this deep dive into some obscure esoteric message that needed to be "recovered" by the your favorite ministry in Anaheim.
Paul's message is simple. The body of Christ has tremendous diversity. Whether the numerous gifts of the Spirit, the diverse ministries in the body of Christ orchestrated by the Lord, or the many services and operations arranged by God Himself, all are needed and absolutely necessary. Paul emphatically reminded the Corinthians that even the less comely "problem cases" fit this category too. Then Paul points them to God's love, without which everything else is vain.
Which reminds me of why I left the Recovery in 2005. The Blendeds had decided to excommunicate us for endless petty differences. The same kinds of meany matters that plagued Corinth. Did LSM learn from Corinth or Paul's letter to the church there? Absolutely not! We were 99.94% identical to other LC's, but that was not good enough for the Blendeds. Instead they send their agents from DCP to file lawsuits and divide the LC's in the Midwest over men. Each member here was forced to decide, "
am I of W. Lee, or am I of T. Chu," just like the Corinthians.
To my dear brother
Drake, please read Paul's letter to Corinth. Listen to what he is writing. Please purge out all the leaven of Lee's teachings which conflict with Paul's truth. Stop micro-reading into verses and get the big picture. Read the context.
Get the big picture: the Love of God!
Sincerely in Christ,
Your brother Ohio