What does it mean that 'so also is Christ' in 1 Corinthians 12:12?
The phrase means Christ is one body made up of many members—all believers who have come into the body of Christ since the Church Age began. By the Holy Spirit, every believer is baptized or inundated into Christ at the moment they believe the Gospel, forming that unified body.
Les explains that in 1 Corinthians 12, all the members of that one body, being many, are still one body, and “so also is Christ.” Christ is made up of all the believers who have come into the body of Christ ever since the beginning of the Church Age. Verse 13 says that by one Spirit all believers—not just a few spiritual ones, the clergy, or priests—have been baptized. Les identifies baptized as being completely inundated, like a ship baptized at sea: it sank, and the ocean water filled every crook and cranny. But this baptism is not water; it is the invisible person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, who has inundated us in Christ. That is how we get there, and it happens the moment we believe the Gospel; you do not feel a thing.
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.
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Who or what is 'Christ' in 1 Corinthians 12:12?
The 'Christ' in 1 Corinthians 12:12 refers to the body of Christ.