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To: MarkBsnr
Yes, I misspoke. However, the first bishop of Antioch was Peter, followed by Evodius. One of these would have ordained Paul. We don’t have Scripture saying which one. Presumably Peter.

Sorry, Jesus ordained Paul...Peter had absolutely zero to do with it...

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:
Act 9:16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Gal 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

Gal 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Gal 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Gal 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Paul was ordained from the get-go to be the apostle to the Gentiles...He was ordained by God just as Peter was ordained by God...

Paul never saw another apostle for 3 years after God ordained him...

A little scripture will clear up every fable you can come up with...

164 posted on 08/08/2009 9:25:28 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool

***Gal 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Paul was ordained from the get-go to be the apostle to the Gentiles...He was ordained by God just as Peter was ordained by God...***

However Paul was ordained by the Church in the manner that all the next generation (after the Apostles) were ordained. That leads us to say that all future priests and bishops are ordained in the same fashion.

If your position were correct, then Paul would not have had to be baptized in Acts 9:18.


205 posted on 08/09/2009 12:01:25 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Iscool

***Paul was ordained from the get-go to be the apostle to the Gentiles***

Interesting. Why did Peter convert the first Gentile and why did Paul split most of the next decade or so between the Jews and Gentiles if this were truly the case?


209 posted on 08/09/2009 1:13:23 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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