Apostles

[Cal]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Concerning your opening statement -- "we must be able to know and agree upon without question who these special apostles are, and I don't think we can," -- this demand sets the bar too high. The early church was never in agreement concerning Paul. Also, it was not too long before Jerusalem placed James above the other apostles.

I meant that in order to have the kind of order and conformity to the apostle the LRC envisioned there would have to be much more agreement on who the apostle is and therefore much more reasonable evidence.

That is, to expect everyone to follow one man the evidence has to be there that would reasonably compel everyone to do so. The LRC never had that for Lee.

They just convinced themselves they did and expected everyone to join in their decision. That works for a handful of fanatics, but to reasonably expect the entire Body of Christ to even consider following one man you have to have a whole lot more evidence than even we gave Lee credit for having.