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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
So watayathimk - is it too far off the mark to say the church is Christ based on those verses?  |
The closest verse might be I Cor 12.12: "
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ."
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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Taking metaphors too far can lead to serious error. One day we are teaching and believing that "the church is Christ" and the next day we might find ourselves teaching and believing that "the church is the fourth part of the Trinity".
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UntoHim spelled out perfectly how WL often took metaphors and inferences too far, often way too far, and introduced conclusions foreign to scripture.
I believe that the scripture sets the boundaries for the truth. WL regularly tore those boundaries down, and arrived at all sorts of crazy conclusions, such as like when he said he had become God in life, and when he became fourth in the hierarchical order of the flow of God.