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Is it His physical body or a group of people or what? I am looking for preciseness as much as possible that it can be called His Body.
ECT What constitutes it being the Body of Christ?
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Nang
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Christ's body is a spiritual body; His church; of whom He is Head and Savior.
Ephesians 5:23
It is all that believe the gospel (good news) given to Paul. Reckon yourself crucified and raised up. Your questions on the surface seem really stupid. Then I realize you reject Paul and especially things like Romans 6.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Until you believe these truths, entering into the Body will not happen.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Until you believe these truths, entering into the Body will not happen.
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Is His Church then a Spiritual body __ made up of spirits?
Nang
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Jesus doesn't have a physical body
we are all part of Jesus
but
in the end some of us will be removed
Nang
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There are two churches: The temporary, earthly, and visible church organizations that are a mix of wheat and tares, and the invisible, eternal, heavenly church composed 100% of justified (forgiven) saints, as revealed in Hebrews 12:23-24.
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Briefly and as I read you, we have two churches of spirit beings one mingled with neither being the real deal, and the other that can't be seen which is the real deal. Is that it? I think that is what you wrote. Do I have it right?
Nang
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This passage refers to the eternal, invisible, heavenly church revealed in Hebrews 12:23-24.
Which is the true church built upon the Rock, Jesus Christ.
Note the references to "heaven" found in Matthew 16:19.
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Spirits, Nang? What part to people have to play in this understanding? I am asking about a body, not spirits. Jesus isn't coming for spirits. The Word did not take up residence in a spirit but, a body. Likewise Jesus inhabitants bodies, not spirits.
Perhaps the question should be whose bodies is Jesus now inhabiting?
what about the references to earth?
Nang
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The true spiritual church body of Christ is eternal and heavenly. That is where all Christians are registered as citizens. Luke 10:20
The earthly churches represent the heavenly church, only in so far as regenerated saints that know Jesus Christ, are found therein.
Nang
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Are you sure?
When a believer dies, does not the soul/spirit immediately go to be with the Lord, while the body sleeps in the grave?
II Corinthians 5:1-8
Nang
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The witness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ on earth, works heavenly results.
The Gospel proclaimed in this world, and in the temporal churches, either binds or looses souls in heaven.
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Good post!
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Only the spirit returns to God, "Who gave it" per Ecc. 12:7. The soul may also IF it is found in Christ __ otherwise, a place of torment, a place where love isn't, awaits it to be later cast into the lake of fire.
