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Originally Posted by Ohio
If God truly has raised up MOTA's in the church age, don't you think that somebody else might realize this besides the saints fooled by him?
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Not necessarily. It that how it worked in the Bible?
You need to stick to the Bible here and stop chasing after what "Christian scholars" think. Such scholars are like economists, stack all of them end to end and they will never come to agreement.
God's servants are usually misunderstood and discounted by the establishment. Moses was rejected by the children of Israel. The OT prophets were almost always on the out and out. Jesus was rejected by own countrymen. Paul told some that though others did not consider him an apostle he was an apostle
to them. Because all in Asia "turned away" from Paul was Paul any less of an apostle?
God raises up whom He will for a special commission. That is the authority of the Holy Spirit. Whom
He wills. It does not matter if you like the people God raises up. It does not even matter whether you recognize them as someone that God has indeed raised up. It does not even matter whether you agree with the commission of those whom God has raised up. And it certainly is of no account what "christian scholars" think about the topic.