“I’ll take that answer as a yes, that you, in fact, consider yourself an apostle, and blame the Catholics for it.”
I never said that, I just asked you questions. Please don’t put words in my mouth, then argue against them. That’s a strawman argument.
You chose your previous answer poorly. Perhaps if you do more research you can choose better.
This is from Matthew 18, with which you should be intimately familiar. Compare it with the original posts and get back to me with what you believe about it, hopefully correcting others so they are not misled by your contention with me. Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
When two or more people come together in HIS name, that is church.
The LORD was speaking to the Jewish Apostles in the first passage, when he gave those apostles the power to bind and loose. The Apostle to the Gentiles was writing to the church in Corinth in the second when he was correcting the members there of misbehavior. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.