One Body of Christ

There is only one Divinely ordained faith. The division of the one Church into many denominations is proof of the carnality of the believers in Christ, of the dominance of our adamic nature.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)

We know from the context of the above passage that Paul is thinking first of Jewish believers, and then of the Gentiles who have been added to the one family of God.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, (Ephesians 3:14,15)

It is not possible that Paul here was thinking of Gentile believers only. In fact, if there were an exception in Paul’s mind it would have been the Gentile believers.

The Jew, Paul, was sent by the Lord Jesus to preach to the Gentiles.

But the Lord said unto him [Ananias], Go thy way: for he [Saul of Tarsus] is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: (Acts 9:15)

Paul knew well that he was called to bear the name of Christ to the Gentile nations. He knew also that Gentile believers would be brought into the one family of God—that they would never constitute a separate church.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; (Romans 11:17)

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