However, of late, the writer has been led to make a prayerful and independent study of the subject for himself, with the result that he is obliged to renounce his former view as utterly untenable and unscriptural. We believe this is much better and a more accurate translation of the Greek than the Authorized Version rendering. But we have one fault to find with the Revised Version rendering too. For the benefit of those who do not read the New Testament in the Greek, we may say that in the language in which the New Testament was originally written there are no capital letters used, except at the beginning of a book or paragraph. In others, where the Holy Spirit of God is referred to, a capital is rightly employed.
Comment is needless.
In one spirit were we all baptized into one body. Note the following points. Certainly not in the Church Universal for that is solely of Divine workmanship, into which human responsibility and failure do not enter. Therefore it is proof positive that it is the local church, and not the Church Universal, which is in view in 1 Corinthians 12. We must refrain from adding further arguments.