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Yes I agree he is an apostle. His ministry continues through the gospel he, under God's inspiration, wrote.

Sorry, I must have understood Fred J's post differently, because I don't see him claiming that Matthew is an apostle and minister to believers today, just that the portion of the bible for which God used Matthew as the human author, what we call the Gospel of Matthew, includes the commission of...

It has been done. A Google search brought up the following from an AI Overview: "Key Examples of North-South Circumnavigation: Transglobe Expedition (1979–1982): The first complete longitudinal circumnavigation. Led by Ranulph Fiennes, the team traveled south from Greenwich, reached the South...

The doctrine or teaching of what true blessedness/happiness is.

I am thinking of the word doctrine as used in the God-inspired bible.

What do you imagine "doctrine" means? Doctrine is teaching. Paul exhorted Timothy: “Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.” (1Ti 4:13 NKJV) So clearly, not all doctrine is bad.

Jesus taught. In other words, He gave doctrine. Was it true? I hope you would agree that it was. All doctrine as stated in Scripture is from God. When fallible man explains the God-given doctrine, that is where the differences occur. That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the...

"Doctrine" is another word for " teaching." True, biblical teaching/doctrine is God-made, not man-made.

Sorry, probably my fault, but I'm not sure which part of my post your "Actually not" refers to. I can't imagine that you would be disagreeing with your own words, which I quoted at the beginning of my post. That only leaves the part starting, "If the earth were flat...." Perhaps to help me...

The post to which you were replying told us: "Ships slowly disappearing over the sea's horizon reveals a 'curve' downward of the earth's surface." If the earth were flat, a telescope or par of binoculars could bring the ship back into view.

Where does the bible say that the earth does not move? There are several places where it says that the earth will not be moved, but none, as far as I am aware, saying that it doesn't move. The psalmist David wrote: “I have set the LORD always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall...

Sorry if I misunderstood. You said "from left to right." Of course, if you add the distance you can see when looking to your left to the distance you can see when looking to the right, it will (assuming there are no buildings, mountains or other obstructions) be twice the distance that you you...

That doesn't make sense. If you were on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, then whether you looked forwards, backwards, left or right, you see the horizon. I live on land, as I imagine most of us do, but in a seaside town. If I look out to sea from my house, I see as far...

I agree with some of what you wrote, that is, they are not called kings, we are not told how many, the fruit of the forbidden tree was not an apple, and the star did not appear over Bethlehem at the time Jesus was born. However, the bible does call them wise men, and does say that they came...

Not called kings at all in Matthew.

The bible doesn't tell us that they were kings, or that there were three of them. Also, Matthew tells us that Jesus was anything up to 2 years old when the wise men visited, and he wouldn't have been in the manger: “Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly...

It does: And he (Herod) sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.”” Further on in the chapter we read: “Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise...

But what makes you think that the disciples, in saying "fire to come down from heaven" were referring to hell? Hell is separate from heaven, so fire from heaven cannot be hell.

We don't need to look at a non-canonical book to show that the wise men found Jesus at Bethlehem, because Matthew makes it clear: “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been...

No contradiction. The circumcision took place on the 8th day after His birth. The visit of the wise men took place up to 2 years after His birth, which is why we read: “Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all...