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Originally Posted by aron
From Don Rutledge
Ray Graver had come up with a teaching and a principle from the listings of the names of the twelve apostles in the New Testament. He discovered that the various listings in Matthew, Mark, Luke and Acts could be divided into three groups of four and that the first name in each grouping was always the same. Therefore, one might infer that here was a clue regarding divine deputy authority. While the order of number two, three and four could shift, the number one was always the same.
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I have three questions: do you really think for a minute that Paul rebuking Peter in front of the rest, in the account of Galatians chapter 2, meant that Paul was now possessor of the "ministry of the age"? How about maybe that Paul simply felt that Peter was wrong?
#2 If the apostle John and Paul were in the same room, do you think that John would really listen to Watchman Nee's idea that he should know who was over him (i.e. Paul)? John would laugh in Nee's face if he told him to be submissive to Paul. Nor, importantly, did John ever attempt to boss Paul.
#3. Did John then get restored to the "mantle" once Paul exited the scene, to write his memoirs (Gospel, epistles, Apocalypse)? Now that he was the Big Kahuna he got the Spirit to write?
This "God can only move through one servant; all others must line up" idea is looney tunes. It was from Jump.