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       PAUL IS AN APOSTLE, BUT TO WHO?
   DIR By: doug
       Date: February 17, 2026, 7:43 am
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       [1 Corinthians 9:1 KJV] "Am I not an apostle? am I not free?
       have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the
       Lord?"..........Paul was made an apostle. Paul saw the risen
       Christ.............[Acts 1:22 KJV] "Beginning from the baptism
       of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must
       one be ordained to be a witness with us of his
       resurrection."..........Judas's death necessitated a replacement
       to make twelve apostles. This verse details the requirements
       that had to be met to be an apostle with the other eleven
       disciples. Paul could be an apostle because he met the
       stipulation to have seen the risen Lord. Paul however, didn't
       meet the requirement to have been with Jesus from the beginning
       of John's baptism and therefore was not able to be ordained as a
       witness to the resurrection along with the apostles. This
       answers those that say the apostles picked the wrong
       replacement, which they say should have been Paul. It also
       precludes there being just one church; Paul could not be an
       apostle along with the twelve to oversee the same church body.
       Peter's apostleship was to the Jews, but Paul was not an apostle
       alongside Peter, Paul's apostleship was to the
       Gentiles........[Galatians 2:8 KJV] "(For he that wrought
       effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the
       same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)"
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