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Well.. One body at Corinth.. one body at Phillipi ..one body at Ephesus etc.. Body as in 'group, assembly, gathering.' So there can be multiple. One Jesus.. with many assemblies of His own. Each a body of Christ. Please note.. I am not saying someone is not saved if they don't belong to...

Okay.. yes the body of Christ is the church. In 1 Corinthians 12.. the church at Corinth is this body. Local and visible. All the wording is of an entity of close fellowship and connection. 'Body' as in assembly, group.. like a body of water.

By local church, in reference to the bible.. its never a physical building, but it is the saved, baptized local assembly being addressed. Jesus and His disciples had no roof over their head most of the time but did assemble together.. called out by Jesus.

'The church' needs to get back to the truth. 'The church' needs to stop being greedy. 'The church' is watered down. What are we talking about when we say 'the church'? Are you talking about the local church as an institution? Or are you meaning all believers currently alive? Thing is...

I'm in agreement with you here. The context of 1 Cor 13 has the gift of tongues, knowledge and prophecy as God revealing His Word. These gifts are what was in part. Whatever completes these is what 'that which is perfect' is. The Second Coming..isn't really about these 3 sign gifts. Of...

Well, I've been affected.. My wife has just divorced me, and I've struggled with thinking o wanted the divorce to. My faith in Christ .. the Word saying don't divorce her ... so she did the divorcing, but my emotions saying.. I dont want to be with her anyway. Yeah so now.. trying to get back...

Post modernism has taken hold of a lot of parts of christianity, along with materialism and emotionalism. My brother was talking about a new revival going on.. I am thinking. .. is it another wave of charismania?

Yes, agreed 😃 The question is.. if someone says when Paul rebaptised.. that this was the Holy Spirit baptizing. How can this be?

If Paul does the rebaptism... how is it then the Holy Spirit baptizing?

What does 'believe' in 'believe on the Lord Jesus Christ' mean? Is it what happens in Roman's 10-9-10 with being immersed in water also? Is the believing in John 3:16.. immersion in water also? What about John 5:24? 3:36? Going thru the book of Acts.. the key thing is whether people who are...

Yeah.. comes back to the question of corporate group of believers experience receiving the Holy Spirit 'in their midst' or individually believing and being indwelt.

Well as far as age goes.. biological age doesn't count as much as spiritual experience. An 80 year old man may have only been a believer for a few months... they are a babe in Christ.. not an elder. A 30 year old man being a believer for 20 years.. being converted at 10... could be an...

The question is whether the receiving the Holy Ghost in Acts was individual indwelling of the Holy Spirit.. or a group of already indwelled believers who received the comforter 'in their midst' as a new local church starting. The group Paul rebaptised were already disciples, had already...

Hold up! Saving faith must be instant.. happen not over a long time.. but immediate! Why? Because it is all Jesus working on someone's soul to save them eternally! It's not effort on someone's part! Romans 10, shows of a process of believing in Jesus that happens and then is done...

So what about the context of the situation in the wider passage?

One verse within a wider passage that gets said alot is.. in Matt 18.. 'Where two are three are gathered there I am in the midst of them ' Many Christians will say this applies to 2 or 3 believers gathered in ANY context. The primary application in the passage tho is 2 or 3 gathered as part...

Family of God and The Body of Christ-- Are they the same thing? Antioch-- local body Corinthians- Local body Ephesians- Local body Galatians- multiple local bodies Jerusalem- Local body Phillipi- Local body Thessolonians-- Local body etc etc.. I would put forward that the NT church...

Not really rich.. but had money saved that I could have used to pay to dispute the divorce. I just couldn't see the dispute being accepted.. the divorce not happening.. seeing in NZ all that needs to be proved is irreconcilable differences. Anyway.. so trying to move on.. but now feeling...

Thanks for telling me, the 'someone' whose spouse divorced them is me if you didn't guess. One of the difficult things is.. so I was faithful to my wife, never hit her .. so biblically I couldn't see how the divorce could go ahead.. but then the law of society-- in NZ all you need is...

Yes this is true. I mean more to do with compromise to keep money when they could have used it for God. An example would be say if a spouse leaves someone, and then their is the option to legally dispute the divorce, but they fear losing a large sum of money and dont donthe dispute