[goat granny]

Oh Quix, you are being so cute with your pretty colors. Perhaps you all don't know scripture as well as you thought. What Jesus stated Paul was, is what Paul was..Your problem is with his words not mine..

When I asked the question originally, I did not know what Jesus called Paul. It was a sincere question but with the scripture that was brought up, I went to Acts and found out for myself....Seems there is a lot of pride and very little humility if one cannot say I didn't know Jesus called Paul his instrument and not his apostle....

You all seem to have a problem with the word of our Lord as it relates to Paul....I may call him a Saint, but not an apostle. I will not put words into Christs mouth that he did not speak.....

I found the answer to my question, thank you all for your input. Perhaps the Holy Spirit guided me to my answer...

[smvoice]

Seems you're not alone in questioning Paul's apostleship, goat granny. There were some in Corinth who questioned his apostleship, too. And he answered them:

"Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord? If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord." 2 Cor. 9:1,2.

Paul used the figure of a "seal" to express the fact that their own conversion was proof of his apostolic authority.

Also read 2 Cor. 12:12. Paul says that truly the signs of an apostle were wrought by him among the Corinthians. In signs and wonders, and mighty deeds.

[Quix]

Wrong again.

I respect God’s Word directly through Christ and indirectly through Paul—both.

You don’t?

You seem to ASSUME that everything Christ had to say about Paul is recorded in Scripture.

I don’t.

[Quix]

And,

you seem to ASSUME

that the blip that Christ had to say about Paul is comprehensively, expansively definitive in the broadest terms.

I don’t.

I find that an unnecessary ASSUMPTION unfounded by the wording or the context of the wording.