![]() Now this could be understood as the incarnate Jesus Christ (the head and his body, the church together) as being like the one Spirit (the Holy Spirit) who is divine.Īlso that Jesus Christ in his literal body was made immortal and the church which is also his body will be made immortal (see Phil. The unity of the church with Christ was liken with this kind of union albeit not to be construed literally because Paul specifically said that the church becomes one spirit, not one flesh, with Christ in verse 17 ( he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.) The union of Christ and the church is therefore spiritual in nature.Ĭhrist and the members of his body (the church) become one spirit. Under sexual union, the two that are separate merged and in some sense, become one. do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? verse 16.). Here the union of Adam and Eve in Genesis was interpreted in the context of sexual union like sexual immorality (i.e. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. The body is not meant fo r sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. The context shows us that becoming one spirit with the Lord Jesus was analogous to becoming one with the spouse and or in some cases, even someone whose not your spouse (as in sexual immorality e.g. (If the Father and Son make their home with the believer, why don’t they teach the believer, why send the Holy Spirit as a delegate?) “Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.īut the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” Or is neither the Father nor the Son present just the Holy Spirit representing the Father and the Son? “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.” ![]() Is the Father (or the Father’s Spirit) present too? On account of “But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” Each one of you is a part of it.How should this verse be understood exactly? Is there now only one spirit? Or two united spirits? (And where is the location of this spirit exactly? Inside the believer perhaps?) If one part is honored, every part shares in its joy.Ģ7 You are the body of Christ. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. All of them will take care of one another. ![]() 25 In that way, the parts of the body will not take sides. And he has given more honor to the parts that didn’t have any. But God has put together all the parts of the body. 24 The parts that can be shown don’t need special care. 23 The parts that we think are less important we treat with special honor. The parts of the body that seem to be weaker are the ones we can’t do without. But there is only one body.Ģ1 The eye can’t say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 In fact, it is just the opposite. 19 If all the parts were the same, how could there be a body? 20 As it is, there are many parts. 17 If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell? 18 God has placed each part in the body just as he wanted it to be. So I don’t belong to the body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the body. 16 And suppose the ear says, “I am not an eye. It has many parts.ġ5 Suppose the foot says, “I am not a hand. 14 So the body is not made up of just one part. We were all given the same Spirit to drink. It didn’t matter whether we were Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free people. ![]() 13 We were all baptized by one Holy Spirit. 12 There is one body, but it has many parts.
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