Craig

Thanks for the discussion Frank. I am just thinking aloud as usual, and I could well be wrong, so you or anyone can feel free to shoot me down in flames if you think so.
Pinklight asked you “In this analogy Paul provides in 1 Cor 12, who, as a particular member, acts as head of Christ’s body?”
You replied

“ Strictly speaking, no one, man or woman, can or should. For Christ alone ……………… is the Head of the Body and should be acknowledged as such.”

This was in answer to Pinklight’s question about 1 Cor 12. I may have missed it, but I can’t find anywhere that Paul says that Christ is the head of the body that he is talking about in 1 Cor 12. Can you?
Just thought I would clarify my thinking a bit and see if you agree or not.
In 1 Cor 12:27 Paul says that “you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” He doesn’t say “Christ is the head of the body, and you are from the neck down to the feet!” Thinking in these terms seems to make the passage very confusing. For instance, aren’t the eyes and the ears and the nose that he refers to part of the head, and yet these seem to be referring to Christians as part of the body.
If I consider my body, I am not just the head of it, I am the whole body. It is all me. This is how I understand what Paul means in 1 Cor 12. Christ is the whole of his body, not just the part above the neck. We are all parts of his body, including the head.
Do you or others agree with these thoughts or am I on the wrong track?