Divisional Unity
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.”~ 1 Cor. 12:12
Division does not necessarily mean separation or isolation from. Something can still remain a part of the whole, as our sample text tells us in referring to the Body of Christ.
There is a group of Bible students I was associated with for many years who leave you with the impression that the meaning of Rightly Dividing the Word is a separateness. But to rightly divide the Word does not justify you dismembering the Word of Truth truth. The Bible is a unity.
If you don’t keep it together, it will fall apart.
To set apart separately, The Jew, The Gentile, and the Church of God is akin to attempting to do so with the Godhead. They are all part of a unity. Yes! each has their own function, but without divorcing themselves from the whole.
In Judges chapters nineteen and twenty we have a Bible illustration of what I am attempting to get at. There is the story of a man dividing his concubine into twelve pieces and sending each part to one of the tribes of Israel. After which when each tribe viewed said, “And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day…”
The kind of interpretation I speak of was foreign to the Church Fathers. The type I mention is only some 180 years old. Let’s stick to what is tried and proved!
by an Old Disciple