[editor-surveyor]

>> “Yes, Peter exercised his servant leadership delegated by the LORD Jesus Christ, and with the Comforter whom Messiah sent to him, and chose
when, and
from whom,
to select a new apostle to replace Judas Iscariot.” <<

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And then Mathias was never heard from again, and then Yeshua, the only one that can appoint an apostle, chose Saul of Tarsus instead.

Men cannot appoint an apostle.
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[CynicalBear]

I hadn’t considered that before. That is an interesting point.

[af_vet_1981]

And then Mathias was never heard from again, and then Yeshua, the only one that can appoint an apostle, chose Saul of Tarsus instead. Men cannot appoint an apostle.

Yes, I know there are more than a few Protestants/Evangelical/Other groups that take this view. As an excercise, try listing the times the Twelve Original Apostles were mentioned in the scriptures after Mathias was mentioned. Catholics are not trapped in the Solo Scriptural paradox. It is also difficult to be consistent when you have no surviving Hebrew scriptures from the New Testament books; only the Greek survived apparently.