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Originally Posted by Igzy
Yes.
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
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Should writing scripture be part of the definition of an apostle?
Matt. 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Acts 1:26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
And lastly, Paul.
Of these, Peter, John, Matthew and Paul wrote scripture. We have a list of 12 apostles plus Paul and less than a third of them wrote scripture. To me this makes it clear that writing scripture is not a requirement or job description of an apostle.
Further, Mark, Luke, James, and Jude were not apostles. So writing scripture does not all of a sudden elevate one to apostleship.
Finally, to be fair, half of the New Testament is written by the Apostle Paul, and he wasn’t one of the 12.
Why is the fact that they wrote scripture being used as a criteria for classifying or identifying apostles?