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Body of Christ
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A student connects the universe-as-body metaphor to the body of Christ, leadership, action, and the possibility that a body can die.
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Jiang says Paul turns church gathering into ritual obedience rather than discussion of Jesus.
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The Eucharist is interpreted as a ritual that negates individual divine sparks by making believers possessed parts of Jesus.
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A student asks whether consuming Jesus abuses him; Jiang answers by emphasizing mastery and obedience rather than exploitation of Jesus.
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The body-of-Christ passage makes each believer a part of a larger organism rather than an autonomous spiritual seeker.
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Jiang says resurrecting Jesus in the church requires complete obedience to assigned functions.
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Paul's hierarchy of apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, and tongues is read as divinely ordained role differentiation.
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"Oh, maybe the body of Christ or something, each has a role, or, like, the head will be leadership, and then the other part's..."
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"So it's almost like a pep rally, right? He's a business person. He's telling his workers, go out and sell those damn hamburgers, man...."
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"For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you. And the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed,..."
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"Can we see this as a way that they abuse or exploit Jesus because they're just eating their body, although the body of Jesus..."
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"So please don't do so, okay? Because my brain is no different from anyone else's brain, okay? You won't find the secret of my..."
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"...so what he's saying is this, when you consume the body of Christ, you've all consumed a part of Him, right? And so we..."
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"...the bread they're eating is the flesh. It is the body of Christ, of Jesus. So Jesus is entering into you and taking you..."
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"Now you are the body of Christ and individually member of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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