Latest challengers to Biblical locality

An accuser who is not convinced in God being triune (God the Father, God the Spirit, God the Son, or that hell is an eternal separation from God) has his contentions, which I will address below.

If we have the truth, why aren't we apostles? Isn't it just a gnostic special knowledge? They like to use the word "gnostic" to accuse, because it is a derogatory term as well as vaguely unusable to respond to since the accuser showed no courtesy in being specific.

They also accuse, an apostle is one who has a following in a community. My answer, in another thread, was because there is not even 12 in agreement visibly seen as in the first century, so how can you have indepedent moves in a community and calling that apostolic, which is smaller than a Biblical locality? God does not divide according to anything smaller than a Biblical locality, nor does He divide on a basis larger than a Biblical locality.

Otherwise, that's what creates the party spirit of sects and denominations and cults. We already have enough of these copouts! Do we really need more of them? After all, we are in the Laodicean church period of "differing opinions", and we have been in this period for at least a hundred years now. Enough already!

The solution is, you need twelve in agreement, at least, to start to recapture the first love lost of Ephesus in the first century. If it was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for us. Praise the Lord!
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Where are these apostles that are talked about so much here?

If this is God's plan.. God's will?

Do they exist? Have they existed for the past 2000 years? If so, where are they? If not, then why not-- was God too weak to raise them up?

saint,

Since we (myself and Simon) have not formerly taken up the position of appointing elders to take care of Biblical localities yet, since we choose humbly not to move independently of the agreement of the 12 that was reached in the first century, we must abide in God's leading and direct commission for the apostles. This requires 12 informal apostles in agreement today, before we move out appointing elders for localities. This would seem to be the prudent course of action where the churches are founded upon the apostles and in agreement on Biblical locality.

This is God's plan. This is God's will.

You can say apostles exist today, but they are not doing God's will according to Biblical locality of appointing elders to take care of the Biblical locality.

The apostolic age has passed so today we have the same persons fulfilling the same role as informal apostles.

God is not too weak, nor is He weak at all. God allows man's sinfulness. He allows the Church to fall into ruin for it to appreciate what works and what doesn't. What doesn't work are denominations, congregationalisms, and non-denominatinalisms. God never divides the Church this way. What does work is Biblical locality.

Praise the Lord! Amen and awomen.