When Paul speaks of the Church as “ one body with many members ,” in 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, he is not describing Christian community. He is revealing a mystical pattern: that the Divine expresses itself through differentiated function , united by a single animating Spirit. “For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” — 1 Corinthians 12:12 In the opening lines of Genesis, God is introduced not as a singular person but as Elohim —a plural name describing many powers acting as one . The revelation of the “body of Christ” is not a new structure—it is the unfolding of Elohim in conscious human form . Elohim: Unity Through Divine Multiplicity The name Elohim appears in Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.” Though often translated simply as “God,” Elohim is a plural noun paired with singular verbs —a deliberate tension in the Hebrew that points to a d...