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I appreciate your desire to be precise with the text. Let me just restate the simple distinction I’m making, because it answers the questions you’re raising. Luke uses “the twelve” and “the eleven” as narrative labels. They function the same way in Acts as they do in his Gospel, they describe...

Just a couple more thoughts here on the use of the word apostle. How does the text make this clear? This book of Acts is primarily a history book. It is what happened, what is said. Luke mentions two men as apostles. One of them is not in doubt as an actual apostle. The Holy Ghost calls out...

Brother, thank you for taking the time to lay out your thoughts. Let me stay with the single point I’m making, because everything else you’ve written belongs to a different category. I’m not disputing the unique authority, gifts, or signs given to the Twelve (and Paul). I agree entirely that...

I do not think I am assuming anything. I am reading the word apostle from the scriptures. It is used in a certain context in the scriptures. Certain powers and spiritual gifts are associated with this office that are not associated with other believers. They are kingdom signs because apostle is...