Was the very first apostle Mary Magdalene, a woman?

[_zeezrom]

The requirement for being an apostle is that hands of a person holding the proper keys are laid on the head of the recipient. Once the magic words are pronounced while the hands placed, the power gets transferred.

[Guest]

The requirement for being an apostle is that hands of a person holding the proper keys are laid on the head of the recipient. Once the magic words are pronounced while the hands placed, the power gets transferred.

Not true, unless you think the Greek New Testament is a bunch of hooey.

[_consiglieri]

Nope. You didn't read my post. Only Protestants believe that. The rest of the Christian world does not.

Faithful Mormons as a whole believe a requirement of being an apostle is to see Jesus.

They believe the current apostles have done so.

Comments like those of Elder Holland are designed to keep that belief alive.

Elder Packer apparently missed the memo.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_consiglieri]

Not true, unless you think the Greek New Testament is a bunch of hooey.

Please instruct us in Greek, Yahoo Bot.

We are all ears.

[_Yahoo Bot]

Nope. You didn't read my post. Only Protestants believe that. The rest of the Christian world does not.

Faithful Mormons as a whole believe a requirement of being an apostle is to see Jesus.

They believe the current apostles have done so.

Comments like those of Elder Holland are designed to keep that belief alive.

Elder Packer apparently missed the memo.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

So, you're one of those fools who believe in Mormon lore? Or the greater fool who castigates the church for Mormon lore? This is one principle nowhere stated in any official or semi-official church publication. Elder Holland's statement is first hand, really? Keep your whip out and handy, some poor TBM will rise to the occasion for your unhappiness for being released as gospel doctrine teacher.

[_Yahoo Bot]

Not true, unless you think the Greek New Testament is a bunch of hooey.

Please instruct us in Greek, Yahoo Bot.

We are all ears.

I have.

[_Nightlion]

Yep. She has more qualifications than any historical Biblical individual to Testify of Real Christian Jesus.

If the evidence from the Talpiot Tomb is correct then it also appears that Mary was married to Jesus and had at least one child who is/was buried in the same tomb with them.

Not possible. Christ did not come by way of the seeds. He did not carry any to pass on.
Oh, I suppose this is news to most everyone. Why do you think that his mother and brethren thought he was beside himself when he went out and acted like the Messiah?
They knew, Just not the whole story. Anyone who changed the swaddling cloth of the baby Jesus knew too (like Joseph) as it was probably noised about and followed him and perhaps why in Nazareth (where many a maid suffered a broken heart by Christ's indifference) they were loathe to believe him at the age of thirty and just as soon take him up to the brow of the hill and toss him off headlong.

[_Nightlion]

The testimony of Jesus first and last is having him (Jesus) put his name upon you in the regeneration of the new heart from God, being born of God, wrought upon and cleansed after bowing to the scepter of Christ in faith, (despising the love of the world, forsaking all confidence allegiance and faith in the world) having the power of the Holy Ghost fall upon you and sanctify you in his (Christ's) name. Having so great a witness as this is more than sufficient to see a man endure to the end. Apostolic witness is not even as great a witness as the born again experience. It is just another but special witness that adds to what you already have.

Of course the LDS Church has dismissed and trampled upon the efficacy and necessity of the baptism of fire and lightly suggested it of some transitory spiritual evolution that requires a lifetime of devotion to complete. What crap! Abomination shall not reign.

[_zeezrom]

The requirement for being an apostle is that hands of a person holding the proper keys are laid on the head of the recipient. Once the magic words are pronounced while the hands placed, the power gets transferred.

Not true, unless you think the Greek New Testament is a bunch of hooey.

Aren't you a Mormon? Why go to all the trouble of looking at Greek translations when you have the Ensign, Book of Mormon, KJV, and Talmage's JITC? You have everything required for learning the true definition of an apostle, and you veer off the road.

[_MCB]

Aren't you a Mormon? Why go to all the trouble of looking at Greek translations when you have the Ensign, Book of Mormon, KJV, and Talmage's JITC? You have everything required for learning the true definition of an apostle, and you veer off the road.

Not only those, you also have the examples of past apostles. http://www.jhuston.com/jod.htm
Forget the Greek until you have explored ALL of Mormonism.
Then you will understand what the pagan Greeks were all about.