- Apr 11, 2019
- 562
- 700
- 23
- Country
- United States
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- Single
I still have no idea what you're talking about.Messenger RNA...you said body...
Scripture says that the Church is the Body od Christ.
Upvote
0
I still have no idea what you're talking about.Messenger RNA...you said body...
I still have no idea what you're talking about.
Scripture says that the Church is the Body od Christ.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
God did, through the natural physical processes of my parents' reproduction. But what does that have to do with anything?Okay, who made your physical body?
God did, through the natural physical processes of my parents' reproduction. But what does that have to do with anything?
The Church is not a physical body. Saying the Church is the Body of Christ does not mean it is the same thing as Christ's physical, earthly body.Think DNA or genetics.
For I believe he is asking what is the genetics of the body of Christ.
Currently, it is multi-cultural (i.e. Believers are from different nations), but it in the end or the everlasting state, it will be Jewish because Jeuss will raise the dead body of believers after His likenness.
The Church is not a physical body. Saying the Church is the Body of Christ does not mean it is the same thing as Christ's physical, earthly body.
Why on Earth would you possibly think that I deny that?Paul says there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body (See 1 Corinthians 15).
Anyways, do you deny that believers will one day be physcially resurrected bodily?
Why on Earth would you possibly think that I deny that?
Some in my other thread have begun to argue that the Bible is not strictly necessary. They said that if all the Bibles in the world were destroyed, the church would still survive. Could the church survive without God's word?
I think this question gets to the heart of the relationship between God's word and God's church. Catholics and EOs are wont to say: "Jesus didn't just leave us a Bible, he left us a church." They also want to say that the Bible and the church have an equal authority and even that the church wrote the Bible! In the Catholic and EO view, it sometimes seems to be the case that it's really the church that is most important, and the Bible is just a book that the church wrote.
But what would the church be without the word of God? Isn't it the word of God that creates and continually recreates the church? Isn't it the word of God that sustains the church? Isn't it the word of God that sanctifies the church and teaches the church?
Without the word of God, the church might still function in some traditional sense. It might go on to ordain bishops, sprinkle babies, lift up crackers to heaven and break them, etc. It might even have an unbroken line of ordination succession that can be traced back to the apostles! But without the word of God, the ministry of the church would not be able to help or save anybody. The church would become a dead institution that is utterly indistinguishable from the world.
Isn't this what happened to Israel in the time of Hosea? Though they were circumcised and had maintained certain Jewish traditions, they had become "Lo-Ammi" - not my people. Without God's word, we are not his people and he is not our God.
No. I intentionally did not use that word. Because the Bible is not the Helper (or the Comforter). The Comforter is the Holy Spirit, who is God. The Bible is not God, and is not a person. The Bible is an inanimate collection of texts. That is not to say that the Bible is lifeless -- but the Bible is lifeless apart from the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Bible "speaks," but only as the Holy Spirit speaks to us.
Wow, been gone all day and come back to find out that not only are they saying that Christ and the Bible are the same, but now the Bible has replaced the Holy Spirit as well! It's gotten worse than I though!
This discussion has gotten kind of weird.Because you said the church is not a physical body, and yet one day they will have all have a physical Jewish body (after the likeness of Christ) for all eternity. Even now the church has a physical body. They are made up of believers in different nations now.
But then you wrongly describe the bible as the only part of the Word of God. Where passage by handing down ( tradition) and authority are also part of the word of God and predate the New Testament.
So the faith prospered for centuries before there was a New Testament and at least another millenium and a half before most could own and read a bible. It was certainly not dead. History answers your question.
Yep.......I'm getting amused to the point of hysterical laughter at some of the total dismissal of historical evidence that I'm reading on this thread!
I believe the "body of Christ" (which is the church's eternal physical existence) will one day exist after the genetics of Jesus Christ (Who is a Jew). Jesus will resurrect believers in Him to be after the physical flesh and blood that He has. Hence, why Jesus can be called our Everlasting Father (even though He is the Son or the second person of the Godhead or the Trinity).