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Then if nobody decided anything, there wasn't a 12th apostle. Somebody decided who the 12th would be, right?

As I said, it's an argument from silence. hmmmm meaning your system drives your understood scripture, rather than scripture driving your understanding. All that may be true, but the other apostles were still involved in its spread, albeit reluctantly to the gentiles. The program might have...

Yes, do you have a real answer? How about if you just answer it, instead of "finding a mental path" to it?

Thanks! What makes you think he did? I'm not the one who decides what the requirements are. Are you? Were the apostles? If you say yes, then you're begging the question. If you say no, then you're agreeing with me. Remember Narnia, how all 4 thrones had to be filled by sons of Adam and...

Let's say your children gave you 2 choices. 1. Bring home pizza for dinner, or 2. Take everbody out for burgers. Let's also say that you had other plans (grilling steaks). So the children cast lots to see which one of their 2 choices you had to do. The lot lands on pizza. Do you bring home...

Then you agree that Peter could have been laying the same foundation as Paul? No, they didn't stopped following it at all, because they were still taking the gospel to those in Jerusalem (first part of the Great Commission). They had already taken it to Samaria (third part of the Great...

I appreciate that, Clete. Agree wholeheartedly! He did, just not as clearly as you are asking for (the old "the word 'trinity' isn't in the bible, so it isn't true" argument) Whether that was his purpose or not is borne out in other scriptures. Yes Yes Yes Not true, because they WEREN'T...

here's your post (we'll consider the same scritpures): Let's add in a scripture that begins to talk about the laying of foundations: 1 Corinthians 1:12 KJV - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Cephas, of course, is...

Um, you kinda went unhinged there. It was answered appropriately. Plus, remember that Jesus gave His mother away?

Then you're also blind.

Are you seriously suggesting you didn't just give the scripture talking of Peter laying a foundation, Rom 15:20?

Maybe. It sounded better in my head. I guess my point was that WHO it was written to is important, but discerning how it applies to them helps us to better apply it to ourselves. For instance, if Ezekiel 38 was written to people that it didn't apply to at all (because they would be long dead...

I'm not sure it wouldn't be possible in other ways. For instance, in Muslim cultures sometimes pressure is exerted on Muslim store owners not to buy from or sell to non-Muslims.

While I agree that evil is not forced on the world by God, He certainly allows it temporarily. But I expect there will be a day when it is no longer present, but still allowed. I say this because if we in our spiritual state (resurrected to die no more) have free will still, then we can still...

I think there's little doubt we can learn much from all the books of the New Testament, but we have to understand how they were written to whom they were written. I don't think we should take the subject matter as our guide regarding to whom they were written, at least in most cases, since we...

Hard to argue against Christians needing to eschew pornography and adultery. Or against demons being demonic. Sometimes the demons might make you less miserable temporarily before they make you more miserable in the long term.

Ok. Did somebody say they thought that in this thread?

Yes, but if someone is building on the idea that we have "free will" and it means the same as what you mean when you say "will". how does the result change someone's idea of God's sovereignty?

Why is this distinction so important to you and @Right Divider? I agree with you, but it seems a distraction hardly worth the time, brought up when other topics are at issue.