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1 | I can't find any specific answer | Matt 16:18 | oddball | 120162 | ||
When did apostles become part of the church | ||||||
2 | I can't find any specific answer | Matt 16:18 | Rowdy | 120169 | ||
The description of the church and its start, its history all is provided in the Book of Acts. Since it doesn't describe the actual scenario of the Apostles being added to the church, we're left to draw our own conclusions. As for me, since we are given specific instructions like as has been posted before, we can infer that they too followed the same procedures. I believed they followed the same procedures like they prescribed for Cornelious and his household in Acts 10. We don't have any scriptures providing for an alternate procedure for getting into the Lord's church and we know only He can add us to the church. I would guess that among the thousands of people who were baptized and added to the church that day on pentacost, the apostles were certain to baptize each other until all twelve of them were baptized. Is there any other interpretation that could possibly be inferred from God's Word? In supportof this statement, I would refer you to a previous post no 119710. Since we have no reason to think the Apostles would be treated differently, they should have been expected to follow the same procedure as everyone else. I hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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