Apostles in The Church: Yesterday and Today

[Cal]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

Makes sense. When you wrote "the Church has not recognized any Apostles since John died" I interpreted as the Catholic Church being the one to introduce the idea of apostolic succession after the death of John.

I find the idea that "there was no more need for men to receive direct revelation from God" dangerous and parallels the situation in ancient Israel with the prophets.

Well, Rev. 22:18 pretty much puts the kabosh on any boldness to add to the revelation. Seems to me what it says is that it is dangerous to claim to have revelation in addition to the Bible rather than constrained by it.