[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/25/2004 11:28:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DAVEH: Hi John.....I am curious about how the SCM believes about current day prophets. Were apostles and prophets a part of the restoration as they viewed it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill and I both came from a fellowship (the Restoration Movemen aka Stone-Campbell Movement) that embraced that very principle. The Resotration motto was "speak where the Bible speaks, be silent where it is silent; call Bible things by Bible names."
John
Not really. There were only 12 apostles, you know, dispite the 15 or 16 that are named in scripture
DAVEH: Do you not consider the additional apostles to be legitimate apostles? It doesn't seem to me that there were only meant to be 12, but it seemed logical for there to be a succession of apostles as they died off.
I would have not reason not to accept the others listed in scripture as "apostles" including the replacement for Judas, Paul, Barnabas, and there is one or two others list ???? As far as a succession of apostles, I do not see any concern for apostolic succession in the writings of the few apostles who addressed scripture (Peter, John, Paul).
Do you see it differently?
and the "prophets" became unnecessary
DAVEH: Why would you think that, John?
Actually, I don't think that. I have never spoken in tongues but I am charismatic to the bone. I see lots of problems in the pentecostal side of the aisle, but they are the same problems Paul had to deal with in the first church. As a charismatic, I would say that there are not as many prophets as are claimed but more than we many suppose. The proof is in the ministry.
as soon as God gave us the Protestant (ah, one of your favoright words) Bible ((as per a misuse of I Co 13 the closing verses - in my humble but correct opinion.)
John
