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Sep 7, 2022 · *** 4) Was Paul a Prophet or an Apostle*** Based on Pauls boosting he believed he was and apostle / prophet and more. Ultimately, there is no revelation / support that Paul was a Prophet or even an Apostle – only Paul calls himself an apostle, no one else – the elders even had to send others with Paul & Barnabas to guide them – hardly a ...
Mar 30, 2021 · No prophet in Paul's churches wrote books of prophecy akin to those of Isaiah, Ezekiel or Jeremiah, or even the minor prophets. The only example of written Christian prophecy that we have is that of John of Patmos in the Book of Revelation, which was unknown to Paul.
In some instances, prophets were afforded unusual knowledge by God, of things humanly impossible for them to learn (2 Kgs. 6:12; Ezk. 8:3–11:25). These narratives emphasize the keenness and detail of the prophets’ knowledge, in contrast to the entranced opacity that would be expected if the prophets did not really understand the revelation given to and through them. 11
Jun 3, 2022 · In the Old Testament, it was only associated to making predictions because prophets were to be tested to see if their predictions came true, so predictions were made in order to certify the message of the prophet, but the point of prophecy was never about making predictions. To see this, consider Jesus and the Samaritan woman, in John 4:17-30:
There are many other examples in the New Testament of prophets seeing beneath ordinary appearances into a divine reality, such as when John the Baptist, “seeing Jesus coming towards him said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world…” (John 1:29) This is just one of many scriptural passages describing how the prophets saw beneath the surface and the ...
Jan 1, 2003 · Paul never read the gospel of John because John did not write it until about A.D. 95. Paul never read the epistles of John or 2 Peter. That is why he said, “We know in part.” Paul died years before those writings. God used apostles and prophets to set forth divinely inspired, prophetic utterances that the apostles later reduced to writing.
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What is important is that two apostles (Matthew and John) and two companions (Mark and Luke) of Paul, the apostle, wrote the gospels. The gospels of Mark and Matthew were written about A.D. 50-60 (17 to 27 years after Christ). The gospel of Luke was written about A.D. 60-61 (27 years after Jesus’ death) and John was written about A.D. 80-90.
