CES Devotional for Young Adults, “What Is the Blueprint of Christ’s Church?,” January 12, 2014; “Christ’s Church was founded on apostles and prophets. When Paul was writing to some new
members of the Church, he said that they were now “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone” (Ephesians 2:20; italics added).
The Apostles understood the imperative need to keep the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles intact…
As the doctrine went from one person to another, it started to change. As long as the Apostles were available, they could correct the doctrine by way of epistles or personal sermons. But when the Apostles were gone, there was no longer any check-and-balance system, no longer any correcting hand, and soon the doctrines became distorted or lost.
For this and other reasons, the blueprint reveals that the apostles and prophets constituted the foundation of Christ’s Church. Do you know of any change order in the New Testament, any revelation that revised the blueprint and states that apostles are no longer needed? I don’t. If that is the case, then Christ’s true Church today should have apostles and prophets as its foundation…” – Elder Tad R. Callister, Presidency of the Seventy
2 Corinthians 11:13; “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
With the advent of the recent LDS apostles who’ve passed away, we thought it’d be a good idea to look at what God says about apostles to weigh and test it against the worldly ways of others, aka the counterfeits.
For the next couple of days we’ll examine what they say and what the Lord says in how many apostles there were.
From the inception of Mormonism in 1830 until the time of this writing in July 2015, there have been 97 LDS apostles and 16 prophets. In October of this year (2015) they’ll add two more apostles because of two apostles that died earlier this year.
We’re wondering how the LDS Church can claim they’re built upon the same structure as the early Christian church, when in fact their history speaks otherwise.
Mormons claim they have twelve apostles plus three in the ‘First Presidency’ who are also apostles. That makes fifteen apostles, not twelve.
Furthermore, their canon states that three of the Nephite apostles never died and neither did John the Revelator which we looked at just a few days ago. (3 Nephi 28, D&C 7:1-8) Now we’re up to nineteen apostles for the era we’re living in.
To complicate things further, there are Mormons who claim the BoM Jesus referred to the twelve he called to work for him as ‘disciples’, not apostles. If they weren’t apostles, the church in America was apostate. After all, the Mormon Church bases their whole story upon the premise the church must be built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
If on the other hand the BoM twelve are apostles, then we must ask why Jesus had twenty-four apostles when the Bible claims He only had twelve.
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