To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Act 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
Act 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Act 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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Act 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
OK we are in agreement. Paul was ordained by Jesus, not the other Apostles, no "laying on of hands", no pretense of "Apostolic Succession".
443 posted on
07/24/2007 7:29:10 AM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
(I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
To: OLD REGGIE
Apostles cannot receive their apostlehood from other apostles. So if you think that Paul's being made an apostle by Christ is a refutation of apostolic succession, then you don't understand the doctrine of apostolic succession.
-A8
444 posted on
07/24/2007 7:32:43 AM PDT by
adiaireton8
("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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