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Human Body Christ 5
Though this comes as a shock to many people, God has chosen the human female form to describe this ideal faith community called the human Body of Christ. The New Testament sometimes calls this female entity, "the bride of Christ" and Paul considered her as female. He wrote, "Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word."3
Though the Bible generally describes the human Body of Christ as female, this does not limit her in any way at all. The Body of Christ, like God, is not strictly speaking a human entity at all except that it is as close as we can understand God from our perspective and may exhibit male, female or other non-human characteristics too. The human Body of Christ bears masculine features because her head is none other than Christ himself. Christ's Body in the sacramental elements at the table, the bread and wine, are neither masculine nor feminine but of vegetable origin. The Body of Christ exists in many different forms. We shall see her as a microscopic fertilized egg or as a gigantic heavenly chorus. She is a most complex and well-kept secret!
"The Human Body Christ."
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