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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think OP's post shows a lot of confusion between the roles of Prophet, Apostle, and Disciple. OP concedes that Paul never called himself a prophet, only an apostle. An apostle spreads Jesus' word, as OP says. However, of these three, only the prophet speaks for God.

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I'm the OP, and I'm totally clear on the three. The fact that Paul didn't use the actual word "prophet" has nothing to do with whether he claimed to be speaking for God and bringing a message straight from Christ to the church. Prophets were used by God in the Old Testament to bring revelation of God to mankind, most often to herald judgment on the nation of Israel and to foretell the birth, death and resurrection of Christ. Hebrews 1:1 in the New Testament says that in the past, God spoke to us, among other ways, through the prophets, but now He has spoken to us through His Son, that is, Christ. Once Christ was born, died and rose again, there was no need anymore for prophets, which is one of the things conveyed when Christ said on the cross, "It is finished." The role of Apostle was a new role. You wont find prophets in the New Testament, and you won't find apostles in the Old. And in the New Testament, the requirement of being an apostle included having met Christ, which is why much is made in the book of Acts about Paul's having met the resurrected Christ, and why this is authenticated by Christ also appearing to Ananias and giving him instructions to welcome Paul and verifying the message that Christ gave Paul. This fulfilled a requirement for Paul to be an apostle, and this is why Paul is called an apostle and not a prophet, though Paul did speak for God through direct revelation from Christ, of which Paul repeatedly reminds his readers and which I cited at length.[/quote]

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