Studying God’s Word ping
I am troubled by the misstated “You can never be an Apostle” Study the life of the Apostle Paul— was he not an Apostle? Who chooses Apostles? are they of man —or men sent by the Living God? We may never be an apostle in the same sense as the twelve disciples—or the”another seventy also” (Luke Chapter 10) But of this 70 also sent out-how many of them were discipled by Christ—I suppose all. But then after Christ was raised by God that third day —comes the story of one Saul of Tarsus ,both Jew and Gentile. A man who lived to persecute those who followed in the way of this Jesus a Rabbi from Nazareth called Christ by His own chosen. Blinded by the Light on the road to persecute the followers of Christ Saul of Tarsus died to be raised up the Apostle Paul author of many epistles. Who am I to say what God has done He cannot do again. The presumption that one cannot be an apostle assumes the man chooses what he will be. The Word inspired by God seems to challenge such theory.