Please allow me to quote "Liberty Of Conscience":
Rev_18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
John the Apostle wrote this after his Patmos experience, who are they and why would John warn of "false prophets" if it were not true (1 Corinthians 12-14; Ephesians 4)?
1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Cor. 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. 30 If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged; 32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
Furthermore, why is it that we still have evangelists, pastors, and teachers? Shouldn't they have ceased to exist at the same time?
Perhaps YOU don't have apostles and prophets because your church is "dead". If I were the Pastor of a "dead" church I'd proclaim that miracles also ceased to exist, otherwise if the congregation realized that my "ministry" was "dead", they might find a NEW Pastor, and a weekly paycheck is awfully enticing to a hireling. -- What you don't know CAN hurt you ...
Game Over.
Thanks,
DaDad[
"Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from John's baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become A WITNESS WITH US OF HIS RESURRECTION." Acts 1:21-26
Therefore, ALLLLLLL the apostles were eye witnesses to Christ and his Resurrection and they repeatedly stated this in their writings (see 1 John 1:1,3 and Peter 1:16, Luke 1:1-2).
Therefore we can know the certainty of the things we are being taught by eyewitnesses. This includes the many apostles and prophets of the New Testament who witnessed the Resurrection who are not among the 12. This means we don't have any certainty of those things we are being taught by those who are not eyewitnesses and trying to tell us there are "New and Improved" revelations from God during the end times. The same thing applies to our court rooms now, eye witnesses can provide proof that an event really happened.
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