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You're taking Acts 1:22 as a rule for every apostle for all time. It isn't. It's just a historical record of how the remaining 11 apostles chose a replacement. It's irrelevant to Paul. That Jesus appeared to Paul and sent him is found first in Acts 22, but also attested throughout his...

I already explained this. This verse is irrelevant to Paul's apostleship. Paul is qualified to be an apostle because Jesus said so. Do you really want to argue with Jesus?

Repeating yourself won't make it true. You know how EVERYONE here knows that what you're proposing is bunko? It's because nowhere in the first 2,000+ years of the church did anyone ever believe or propose such a thing. You are, at best, making things up as you go.

God ignored that requirement, so I don't feel bad ignoring it, too.

The criteria to be an apostle is clear. To be an apostle, the risen Christ must appear to one, and send them on His behalf, with authority. For the original 12, that happened in John 20. For Paul, that happened on the Damascus road.

It started before that, otherwise they wouldn't have started convening councils.

We're the world's latest hegemon. There necessarily follows a sentiment of anti-hegemony. This is a matter of historical record. From my short list of allies, the Saudis provide crude oil, a need. Taiwan provides semiconductor microchips, another need. Beyond that, we are quite...

The world is already against the U.S., with few exceptions - Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan. Are you quite sure? From where I'm sitting, we not only survive as a country, we support 1/3 of the world's other countries in one fashion or another.

Would you, could you, with a... AH-64 Apache attack helicopter?

Numbers 35 suggests that God takes vengeance by appointing men to act on His behalf, in the here and now. I do not see that vengeance is deferred til the end of the world.

Uh... they're the same root word. See that VENG in both words?

More destruction of Scripture in the name of propping up your pet dotrine? A major doctrine of the New Testament is UNITY - that we should be united as one. UNITY doesn't square with the idea of two churches. Ephesians 4:11 And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some...

Has anyone considered the idea that the word "heaven" is often not literal in the New Testament? Matthew routinely substitutes the word "heaven" where Mark and Luke use the word "God." The kingdom of Heaven is at hand! (but really it's God's) If that's the usage, then people do indeed go to...

On the one hand, salvation is not through knowledge or learning. Christianity is not a gnostic religion. On the other hand, salvation IS through belief in Jesus. How will you believe Jesus if you have no idea what He taught? The sad state of affairs is thus: Even here, on a Christian forum...

Salvation depends on agreeing with God, which requires that desire for surrender, but also to hear God so that they may agree and obey Him. That doesn't seem like a given to me. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Seems relevant

So, we need to convince people that they're bad first? Then, we can pitch them salvation from... themselves? o_O

Are we, though?

I learned something today. That doesn't happen often anymore

I think you may have missed the point in Ezekiel 37. The children of Ephraim are NOT "still united with the other tribes" despite being scattered. They are dead - dried up bones, and "cut off for our parts" from the southern tribes. Here are the verses that immediately precede the ones you...

Ezekiel is talking about Cherubim. The gospels are not being predicted there. Revelation is thought-to-be written after the gospels... can't predict after-the-fact.