Suppose an Apostle appeared on the scene today, but you only had the opportunity to ask him one question ...

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… what would that question be?
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*1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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My question would be, "What business do you have in the earth being dead when inspiration tells us
Eccles. 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;* neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
 
brakelite said:
My question would be, "What business do you have in the earth being dead when inspiration tells us
Eccles. 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;* neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
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That’s just your private interpretation; it doesn’t count.

Besides, look again at 1 John 4:1, which you just quoted:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Notice it says to “try the spirits whether they are of God.” It doesn’t say there are no spirits of God which may influence and interact with us, but only that we are to be *very sure * that these spirits are indeed “of God”!

In any event, just for the sake of discussion, let’s assume that after period of sufficient testing, there is no uncertainty that a certain spirit is indeed “of God,” and furthermore, that it is indeed a holy apostle. Again, what one question would you then like to ask him?
 
raumzeitmc2 said:
That’s just your private interpretation; it doesn’t count.
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Actually, no , not mine, Solomon’s. Or doesn’t he count?
What of the many other scriptures that teach the very same thing? And do you not wonder at the fact that the church today (and I speak of Catholic **and ** Protestant) is repeating from the pulpit the very same message that Satan first preached to Eve, a denial of God’s previous statement on the issue, “Ye shall not surely die…?”
 
brakelite said:
Actually, no , not mine, Solomon’s. Or doesn’t he count?
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Solomon counts, just not your private interpretation.
What of the many other scriptures that teach the very same thing? And do you not wonder at the fact that the church today (and I speak of Catholic **and ** Protestant) is repeating from the pulpit the very same message that Satan first preached to Eve, a denial of God’s previous statement on the issue, “Ye shall not surely die…?”
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What has that to do with anything??? You’re stuck not only in the O.T., but in your wrongheaded private interpretation of it!

In any event, coming to the New…
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.
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Jesus is alive! The saints in heaven are alive!
 
I suppose my question would be, “What do you need me to do?”
 
I suppose my question would be, “Now, your holiness, that you had seen everything, from the beginning of the Lord’s ministry until his death and ressurection, and now together with him in his Father’s house, in retrospect what did he really mean in John 6: 43-59 and Mathew 16:18-19”. 😉

If it is an one-off thing, I would probably ask him to give the answer in writing or may get it taped; so that it will be for all the world to see. 👍
 
While I suppose it might depend on the Apostle, but I’d probably ask something along the lines of “How did you lead the exemplary life you did?” (Or possibly, “so, what did you do after the resurrection?”)

Of Peter I’d probably ask if there was any particular event which led him from his feelings of philos love toward Christ after the resurrection to his feelings of agape love when he gave up his life for the gospel, particularly in light of all that he saw and experienced before the resurrection.
 
I’d ask, “On the basis of your walk with Jesus, what is the most important thing you want to share with me, a fellow believer?”
 
raumzeitmc2 said:
… what would that question be?
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This question caused me to think of how we value or do not value that which we are already given. Somehow we think that those people of two thousand years ago are much more valuable than those of today. Or even those leaders of the last twenty years are more important than those of today.

I long for John Paul II; to me he was one of the great leaders of all Christianity of all time. However, John Paul II and Benedict XVI are in the same position. Why do I not value him the same way?

Do I simply pick and choose who I will admire? Do I forget they both sit in the same place?

If I could ask one thing it would be, “May I walk with you?” Should I not ask the same of Benedict XVI?
 
There would be a number of things I’d say, but first I’d have to figure out a means of communication, given that Aramaic/Hebrew/Greek or whatever they could speak is by no means mutually intelligible with American English.
 
I only get one question. Thats not fair.😦

I have so very many. Ok I guess the one I would ask is “What can I do?”.
 
“Did you really lose IT or IT’s still hanging in there?!?”

That!.. will be my question!🙂
 
Me: Okay I am seeing this and I am still not convinced but I am willing to listen. What do you have that could convince me your who you say you are an that your faith is the true one?
 
Well I believe that they are here today. Still leading the Church.

But if you are talking about one of the original Apostles I guess I would ask were your afraid alot? Because in those days everyone wanted them dead like Jesus.
 
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