Is Paul a legit Apostle of Jesus?
Updated: Nov 15, 2021
Some religions today are desperate much about Paul and his teachings. They said that Paul twisted the true teaching of Jesus Christ back then. They even accused Paul as a false apostle for breaking the law of Moses. However, they didn't know how Paul followed Jesus's teaching by these following verses in the Bible.
About shaking the dust off your feet
Jesus
Matthew 10:14
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
Paul
Acts 13:50The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district. 51So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.
About anger
Jesus
Matthew 5:
21 “You have heard that it was said to our people long ago, ‘You must not murder anyone.[a]Anyone who murders another will be judged.’ 22 But I tell you if you are angry with a brother or sister,[b] you will be judged. If you say bad things to a brother or sister, you will be judged by the council. And if you call someone a fool, you will be in danger of the fire of hell.
23 “So when you offer your gift to God at the altar, and you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there at the altar. Go and make peace with that person, and then come and offer your gift.
25 “If your enemy is taking you to court, become friends quickly, before you go to court. Otherwise, your enemy might turn you over to the judge, and the judge might give you to a guard to put you in jail. 26 I tell you the truth, you will not leave there until you have paid everything you owe
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Paul
Ephesians 4:26
"In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
Picking snakes
Jesus
Mark 16:18
they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
Paul
“As Paul gathered an armful of sticks and was laying them on the fire, a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, bit him on the hand.”
Acts 28:3 NLT
About death and resurrection
Jesus
“Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.”
Luke 9:22 KJV
Paul
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Even in the old testament, Paul was prophesied by Prophet Isaiah,
“And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.”
Isaiah 49:6 KJV
And the confirmation in the new testament,
46Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. 47For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
Acts 13:46-47
In conclusion, only Jesus will choose His own 12 apostles. Even Judas Iscariot died, and the rest 11 elected new one by the name of Mathias, still the 12 are not spiritually completed. Until now, we don't have any writings of Mathias but only Paul has the most writings in the new testament. God uses Paul to write what's the will of God for the gentiles and newly converted Christian Jews. In this matter, Scripture is being fulfilled in Luke
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke 11:49 KJV
As the verse said above, only the wisdom of God can send or choose apostles and that wisdom is Jesus. Paul supported this title for Jesus in his writings. According to 1 Corinthians 1:24, Jesus is the wisdom of God.
but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:24 KJV
To close,
No doubt, Paul is the true apostle added by God to complete the 11 and whom Jesus elected which critizers are wrong for their accusations.
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