pinklight

Thanks so far for your reply, Frank. I agree with your #1, but I don’t agree with all of what you said in #2. What it is that I don’t agree with is the implication of the text that you see. I think Paul is using “head” in 1 Co 12, as simply another member of the body like all the others because it reads that the “eye”, “ear” and “head” are all members and if all are members than in this analogy the head wouldn’t be “source of life” as meant in 1 Co 11. I don’t think Christ is a “member” like we are either. And when I read, “And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” I wonder? Would that be something Paul would even imply that Christ would say? I don’t see how. And then since each member has a gift, and Christ gives the gifts (Eph 4), well he doesn’t need to gift himself? Is the head not a member and therefore not given a gift as the rest of the body?