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To: allwrong57

There are no longer any apostles on this earth. What God instructed them to do in their dispensation is for that dispensation. Nowhere is the gift of apostleship transferred to any other as there were certain qualifications necessary to be one.

“Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 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” (Acts 1:21-22).

I’m happy to see you are being specific with Scripture, so how about this one . . . from the lips of Jesus Christ Himself.

“And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 23:9).


56 posted on 01/02/2020 9:20:27 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Nowhere is the gift of apostleship transferred to any other as there were certain qualifications necessary to be one.

Wrong. There was one who replaced a guy named Judas.

In the days following, Peter proposed that the assembled disciples, who numbered about 120, nominate two men to replace Judas. They chose Joseph called Barsabas (whose surname was Justus) and Matthias. Then they prayed, “Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all [men], shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”[Acts 1:24–25] Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was numbered with the eleven apostles.[2]


57 posted on 01/02/2020 9:48:46 AM PST by allwrong57
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