I could legitimately say in response to this...
Thank you for conceding the debate.
But I know that somehow, in your mind, you've done the opposite. :bang:
You'll never understand any of this by making such arguments. You are arguing argainst the existence of color from within a blind mans world.
My point is not to suggesting that you're blind, although you are to these ideas, it is simply to point out that saying that you are basically arguing that my paradigm makes no sense from within your paradigm paradigm. That just isn't a rational argument!
Just think it through what your point here suggests for a second. You are implying that Jesus (God Himself) came down and spent three years training His apostles and teaching them what to believe and how to teach others. He then told them to go into the whole world preaching everything that He had taught them (He taught them to follow the Law, by the way) and gave to them all authority to act in His absence. They appointed a new apostle to replace Judas who God endorsed directly by indwelling all twelve with the Holy Sprit on the Day of Pentecost (a Jewish feast day - by the way). They then proceed to do as instructed and some time later (probably about a year) God realized twelve wasn't enough and that there was a thirteenth apostle needed and so rather than sending Saul to the Twelve (or the Twelve to him) and have him accept the gospel the old fashioned way (by hearing the word of God preached) and then to have the Twelve make him an apostle, which He had given them the authority to do, He decided instead to come down and covert Saul miraculously and in Person on the Domascus Road and then reveal to the gospel to him by direct divine revelation.
That's what you're implying!
And yet you also maintain that there was nothing special about Paul or his ministry except the he went to the gentiles. That makes no sense even from within your own paradigm.
I'm not going to address the point about the other apostles being cursed accept to say that it isn't true and that such an objection only makes sense from within your own paradigm. You are effectively begging the question but I don't have near the time it would take to untangle that knot.
Just how many apostles do think there were?
He wasn't just seperating himself, he was treating them as unclean, he was following the Mosaic Law, LA.
This discussion is going rather well. Don't screw it up by saying stupid things.
Resting in Him,
Clete
