Posted on 08/17/2008 4:07:18 PM PDT by Salvation
All except one. According to tradition, all of the twelve apostles died as martyrs during the first century A.D. Only St. John, the writer of the Gospel with his name and the Book of Revelation died a natural death. It is believed he died near the year 100 A.D.
The possible causes of death of each of the Twelve Apostles:
Sources for the above information:
Unless you're Bo Dietl I think you mean crucifixion.
Mistakenly argued since Matthias was chosen to join the other eleven before Paul's conversion.
"And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place. And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles." Acts 1:23-26
If Enos had been a priest one wonders why the author didn't call him one.
According to Scripture, yes.
"Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it. And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed: and went and hanged himself with an halter." Matthew 27:3-5
One word sasys it all, doesn't it?
Your list leaves out SS. Peter and Paul. +James, the step-brother of the Lord, was not an apostle, althought +Paul calls him an apostle (by misake?) in Gal 1:19.
Judas despaired, rather than repenting, and committed the grave sin of suicide. The Scriptural evidence seems to indicate that he went to the bad place [tm].
I remember reading that. John was a very old man when the legend said that he was put in large pot of boiling oil, but came out unscathed. Our God is the God of miracles, and He can alter any physical laws He wants to.
Luke 22:3-6
Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus. They were delighted and agreed to give him money. He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present.
John 13:27
As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. "What you are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him.
Judas finally realized he'd just sold out the innocent Jesus to a horrible death, but it was too late to change things. There are all kinds of guesses, things like Judas was a revolutionary wanting God's Kingdom to come and by forcing Jesus's hand by threat of death, Jesus, the miracle worker, would have to do something. Nonsense, and we'll never know in this life what was going on.
Works in your view is part of getting and being saved. Every parable has truth in it. There are many religious people who think that they are saved and that is where Christ separates them out. A parable is a teaching tool to say that a parable is a fairytale story that only protestants believe is wrong. I could do a search and come up with many beliefs that are misrepresented and wrong and stated as fact that is why wikipedia is not allowed on FR.
I was referring to Clement of Alexandria in his writings, "Who is the Rich Man that Shall be Saved?".
BTW-You can download the entire early church fathers collection free of charge at Early Church Fathers. I found it great to do a search on to find this passage.
I don't think so. If you'll recall, the Lord appointed all of His early apostles. Matthias was NOT directly appointed by the Lord Jesus. Paul, OTOH, was.
I don't wish to take away from what a fine person Matthias must have been. But what you're arguing is that the remaining apostles superseded the Lord Jesus appointment. I find this a rather interesting argument because, technically, the "church apostles" appointed Matthias. Paul was appointed NOT by the church apostles but by the Lord Jesus. So, this is direct evidence that the apostles were directly overrule by God, unless you do not believe Paul to be at the same level as Matthias.
Suggested reading, the Acts of the Apostles.
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