We probably disagree as to what the qualifications are, then.Paul didn't meet the qualifications to be one of the twelve....even thirteen, if that were the case.
Thank you for your kind words ... :rain:
Indeed, Paul's commission was unique and different. Good call.We probably disagree as to what the qualifications are, then.
From where I sit, a face-to-face meeting and personal commission with the Lord Jesus Christ is entirely sufficient. The apostles might have had some other ideas in Acts 1. They made lots of other mistakes, too.
Edit: John, sorry if I interrupted your conversation with yourself.
Indeed, Paul's commission was unique and different. Good call.
Acts 1 explains what the qualifications were to be one of the twelve apostles for the twelve tribes (notice the match there?):
Acts 1:21-23 (AKJV/PCE)(1:21) Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, (1:22) Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. (1:23) And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
There probably were not a large number of candidates based on those criteria; and Paul certainly did not meet those.
But Paul is not one of the twelve apostles for the twelve tribes; he is that other different apostle. That one apostle for the one body.
You are literally as dumb as a box of rocks.RD wrote:
But Paul is not one of the twelve apostles for the twelve tribes; he is that other different apostle. That one apostle for the one body.
lol, what's going on? Apostles for tribes??? The one apostle for the one body, as though Eph 3 didn't exist?
Once again your are CLUELESS about the CONTEXT of what was being discussed.RD wrote:
There probably were not a large number of candidates based on those criteria; and Paul certainly did not meet those.
He was able to send out 70 pretty soon into his work. There were often thousands around.
What's the bottom line Tet?
He won't answer it.
If he says MAD will damn us, one of two things happens.
(a) He'll be accusing us of believing a false gospel, which would demand he tell us what the true saving Gospel is...but that's a topic he always avoids,
or
(b) knowing we believe the grace Gospel, it proves he believes salvation is foremost by being a preterist, which would reveal him to believe a false gospel.
So he says nothing. At best, he'll pretend he answered without actually answering.
Flave JoeFlava Flav!
I like Flavian for Tet and Holfordist for IPMADs almost never quote Darby but we're called Darbyists by Tet.
Okay.
Tet quotes Flavius Josephus far more than we ever quote Darby, so Tet is a Josephian or Flavian, you pick.
IP quotes Holford every third post. He's clearly a Holfordianist.
Goose, gander. Let's make these labels stick!
:rotfl:I prefer Flavius Bosephus, cause a country boy can survive.