Please show mw where Saul or Paul is mentioned as an Apostle. Certainly not in the Bible or by Jesus.
In his writings,
Paul, although not
one of the original twelve, described himself as an
apostle.
OMJ is an Apostle as well!
In
Christian theology and
ecclesiology,
apostles, particularly the
Twelve Apostles (also known as the
Twelve Disciples or simply the
Twelve), were the primary
disciples of
Jesus according to the
New Testament. In addition to Christian theology, Islamic theology also acknowledges the apostles in the
Quran.
[1] During the
life and
ministry of Jesus in the
1st century AD, the apostles were his closest followers and became the primary teachers of
the gospel message of
Jesus.
[2]
While
Christian tradition often refers to the apostles as being twelve in number, different
gospel writers give different names for the same individual, and apostles mentioned in one
gospel are not mentioned in others.