i would like to know

[EricH]

I did not know any of them personally. Timothy was not an apostle by the way

Excuse me....He was a co-missionary with paul and Acts , devout from a small boy to the Lord God and faithful to Paul and Jesus, ordained and taught under Paul. Was to remain at ephesus to instruct men, was trusted by paul to be sent to do corrections in place of Paul himself. Books of Timothy

That does not make him one of the 12 apostles. Certainly he was a missionary, but He was not an apostle. He is not called one in scripture.

[EricH]

The definitive list we have from scripture are:

1. The initial group of 12 (including Matthias after Judas died) - these seem to be the 12 whose names are inscribed in Revelation 21:14

2. Paul and Banabas (Acts 14:14)

3. James the brother of Jesus (Galatians 1:19)

Timothy and John Mark are included in none of the Lists (nor is Luke)

[patricia1]

I did not know any of them personally. Timothy was not an apostle by the way

Excuse me....He was a co-missionary with paul and Acts , devout from a small boy to the Lord God and faithful to Paul and Jesus, ordained and taught under Paul. Was to remain at ephesus to instruct men, was trusted by paul to be sent to do corrections in place of Paul himself. Books of Timothy

That does not make him one of the 12 apostles. Certainly he was a missionary, but He was not an apostle. He is not called one in scripture.

then paul wasn't either but a apostle is a person who seems to do whatever is needed when needed ... carries a message no?

[patricia1]

my bible has more apostles than that. Hmmm

[damo1]

damo1

i was going to say thomas my self but i do not see his name in that list so i am going to have to say paul as i am often having to make peace if you look threw acts paul got him self into a fair bit of trouble like the riot at ephesus in acts 19 reading from verse 21 to 41 he often had to prove to the disciples he was no threat to them and that they could trust him acts 9 sauls conversion Ananias was even telling god that he had heard from many about paul but the lord instructed Ananias and said go he is a chosen vessel of mine to bare my name before the gentiles and kings and the children of israel

since i have been back from the philippines i have found my self in sevral heated debates and i am always having to show others who dare question me weather i am a christian that i am with in my rights to have the same relationship as they have with jesus

i have a hunger that i have never had i am reading the gospel more i am standing up for the gospel the new job i have know i am bringing in christian principals when it comes to the kids we deal with and i am finding my self counsling some of the secular staff members like today my first shift i spent the day with one of the female staff members and she just opened her self up to me with out me saying anything i found this strange as she has my home ph number and mobil and if she is stressing out i said for her to ring as she is only 22yrs old

i am talking openly about my faith with out fear which just blew me away

we did something like this in our mens group but it was on our gifts like a survey wear we had 70 questions to answer and we had to tick a box one of the leaders took the surveys and contacted us and made time to sit down with the men i was caled on wed and he said you have a strong gifting in evengalizing and apostle ship came up i looked this up just to find out what it means to me and it freaked me out

i wanted to say thomas as i related more to thomas but since we could not use his name in this survey i had to say paul

right now i am involved in this say debate more than argument over the slain in the spirit and its like some are thinking occultic teachings have snuck in the church and that pastors use hypnotisem to hypnotise their members and are what he is saying witches doing the devils bidding so far i have kept my cool but its like i want to pin this person and realy show him who he is mocking

i dont take kindly when this gospel is insulted like i use to so work that out paul often stood up for the gospel and always got out of sticky situations

this is who i wil have to say i recieve the gospel easist from paul as he does not beat around the bush so you can say i am looking to paul as my role model more than the other disciples

god bless from damo