The Body of Christ is the true church

[TonyChanYT]

There is oneness in this Body, 1 Corinthians 12:

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

27 Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

What is the Body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12?

This Body of Christ is a spiritual reality. We are born of the Paraclete. Jesus sent us the Paraclete to dwell in us. Every believer who has the Paraclete is a member of this Body of Christ. This is not a fleshly reality but a spiritual one. It is not the visible physical church. The Body of Christ is the true church existing in the spiritual realm.

Christ is the head of this church, Colossians 1:

18a He is the head of the body, the church.

The invisible Body of Christ is expressed visibly as the church. Every believer who has the Paraclete dwelling in him is a member of this spiritual church.

Ephesians 1:

22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Metaphorically, we play different parts in the body of Christ. Some are eyes; some are ears, nose, hands, feet, etc. (1 Corinthians 12:12-20).

No single institutionalized earthly visible church/denomination is the true church. Everyone who has been born of the Spirit is connected to the organic Body of Christ as a spiritual reality in oneness. The Body of Christ is the true church as a spiritual organism.