In another thread I posted the following correct rendering of I Cor 12:13:
Then you appeal to Ephesians 4 to buttress your rendering:
In fact the passage is consistent with my view rather than yours.
As I have shown, I Cor 12:13 establishes water baptism to place us in the local church. The body Paul mentions is the congregation at Corinth. He affirms this in 13:27, when he describe the FBC Corinth as "YE are the body of Christ."
A large part of the letter to Corinth is aimed at correcting problems in that congregation. The context of chapters 11-12-13-14 confirms this.
No Universal Church in prospect here.
Look back at 1 Corinthians 12:12 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.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
The Body is one, the Body of the church is one not seperate and Who makes it into One, we drink into One Spirit, the Holy Spirit and how do we Drink in the Spirit through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, so that by the one Spirit we are Baptized, Baptism of the Holy Spirit, into the one Body, the Church made up of all Believers. Clearly Paul is letting the Corinthians know that the Holy Spirit Baptized them. We are immersed in the Holy Spirit, He Indwells us, the example of the cucumber being immersed in vinager and the vinager saturates the cucumber to make it a pickle, they become one with the vinegar indwelling the pickle. Paul's point was that they were trying to operate seperately rather than in the unity of the Spirit.
The Ephesians 4 passage again,
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Verse 3 We are to endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit, again the emphais is on the Spirit and keeping unity just as it was in the Corinthians passage. Verse 4 He says there is one body and one Spirit again the emphasis on the Holy Spirit.
Paul then emphasizes it yet again there is:
One Hope of your Calling. That hope is in Jesus Christ
One Body (the Chruch) which is made up of all born again believers
One Faith which is in Jesus for salvation
One Baptism, who makes places us into one Body and one Faith, the Holy Spirit, so this is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
One God and Father of All