The Body of Christ The Body of Christ Is the body of Christ to be identified with the church of the wilderness of the Old Covenant? Some believe so. They have assumed and affirmed that the body of Christ, i.e. the spiritual body of the Lord or the church, only existed for the first century transition period between 30 to 70 AD. After examining what some have written on the subject (we do not claim to have listened to all) we have noticed one problem in their attributing passages which speak of the body of Moses to the body of Christ. By the body ...