How comes you know so much!? Were you mormon before you were catholic?Read it in the order in which it was written. Start at Omni or Mosiah, read to end, then resume at 1 Nephi. Then you will understand the difference between the two halves.
Well done for escaping, it must have been so hard for youā¦
This area of Wisconsin is my haven.Well, the problem is, that refugees within the US from other areas of the US are not given refugee status. And Canadians would look real wierd at a person from the US claiming to be a refugee from the US. And because of my partial Native ancestry, I would not consider anything else, since I donāt know Spanish. Soā.
I donāt know what your talking about Jerusha! Iām from Londonā¦Dear Zerinus,
We also think that the Apostasy had begun during the lifetime of the Apostles.
The failure was not the fault of the Apostles. The failure was partly caused by the wickedness of the people, and partly because of the state sponsored persecution of the Christians.
You regard the Pope to be the successor of Peter; and the only way he could do that would be if he embodied the office of Peter, who was the chief Apostle.
Christ did in fact ācome back during the lives of the 12 chosen Apostlesā. After He died He was resurrected, and appeared to His Apostles and instructed them for 40 days, and ascended to heaven; and even after He had ascended to heaven He did occasionally visit them and gave them instructions when they required it.
St Paul was chosen to be an Apostle by Jesus Christ, not by himself.
Modern day Apostles in the LDS Church are also chosen by Jesus Christ.
That didnāt make sense. The Twelve had the authority to choose other Apostles by revelation from the Lord. Matthias was not chosen by lottery! The ālotteryā was a way (one way) of determining the will of the Lord concerning the matter.
That does not make him (the pope) an apostle, although Peter was an apostle, nor do we consider the pope to be an apostle.
It was the pope that made me go to a catholic church for the first time!
LOL You are correct. The Mormon explanations for this are just irrational without any historical evidence.
Peter was the Vicar of Christ, one of The Twelve, an Apostle, and Bishop of Rome. The title of Twelve and Apostle was never meant to be handed down so Peterās successors are the Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Christ with all the Authority Peter had.
Paul and Barnabas were Apostles and both converted to Christianity after the crucifixion, so it seems the Twelve could commission Apostles. But The Twelve was never meant to continue. (Rev 21:14, Acts 1:21-22) and without Christ or The Twelve to commission Apostles; there would soon be no Apostles. As we know the Church was never supposed to be lead by Apostles, so it seems this is something else made up by Joseph Smith about five years after he started his religion.
This is exactly what the mormons claim that they have! **Living apostles! **
ā¦weirdoes!No, I really donātā¦is it a catholic thing?
Itās not a joke, I really donāt get itā¦They were needed when they were needed but just to say that God can call more to the world is just like saying that we should have or need a new prophet, but we donāt! Christ was the only one and last needed!
What he ācould doā and what he ādid doā are two different things. Apostle means to be sent; by my count he sent 82 while he was alive: The Twelve and the seventy.
We donāt know everything Christ said but we know what happened. We know what the Apostle Peter said as recorded by Luke in Acts 1:21-22, which would limit the Twelve to the first century. We know what the Apostle John wrote in Revelations 21:14 which identifies the Twelve as a special one time group and the New Testament doesnāt record any other Apostle being added to the Twelve.
Itās not that he wouldnāt or couldnāt, itās that he *didnāt. *I believe they made it into known world. He also said nothing about creating other Apostles after the first ones.