[af_vet_1981]

And then Mathias was never heard from again, and then Yeshua, the only one that can appoint an apostle, chose Saul of Tarsus instead. Men cannot appoint an apostle.

Yes, I know there are more than a few Protestants/Evangelical/Other groups that take this view. As an excercise, try listing the times the Twelve Original Apostles were mentioned in the scriptures after Mathias was mentioned. Catholics are not trapped in the Solo Scriptural paradox. It is also difficult to be consistent when you have no surviving Hebrew scriptures from the New Testament books; only the Greek survived apparently.

[editor-surveyor]

In the Revelation, Yeshua states plainly that there are only 12 apostles.

There was never a reason for men to believe that they could appoint an apostle. There is nothing in scripture to support the notion. Even the passage in Acts shows that it was a bungling exercise in nicolaitanism.

Men cannot know the heart of another man.