[RnMomof7]

Again it is Paul who says this...I want scripture where Jesus calls him apostle...God sent him, true, but when Jesus talked to him on the road to Damascus, he was not called to be an apostle by Jesus.

So Paul was a liar? Scripture is in error and Rome canonized a liar?

It might help if you understood the Greek word for apostle..

apostolos

1) a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders

You admit that Paul was sent..thus by defination he was an apostle

Peter, james and John accepted Paul as an apostle, but Catholics won't because they do not like the message ....

Where did Jesus address Peter as " His holiness the pope"?

[goat granny]

As I said earlier, difference of opinion is what makes a horse race and the difference in Christian denominations...

You use the term liar, I just said he took that label himself and it was not what Christ's word for him was.

I have no desire to split hairs and get into a religious flame war. I posited a question and found the answer in Christs own words. That satisfied my question. I consider it the end of my participation in this debate.

What happened after Christ stated what Paul was to do and what he was called after that in the early church was not part of my inquiry..

But even Peter put forth what makes an apostle when lots were thrown and Matthias took Judas place as an apostle..Paul did not meet even Peter's criteria of what it takes to be an apostle...

What was done after that is not part of my inquiry. You all can call Paul whatever you want, I don't care. I have my answer..using scripture as my guide...with Christ and Peters own words...

[1000 silverlings]

and not just Paul, Acts 14 tells us that Barnabus was an apostle

14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul