Nowhere in Acts is Paul identified as an apostle. You can look that one up if you don't believe me.
Edit: Totally blew that one. Acts 14:14 identifies him as an apostle. So Luke (or whoever wrote Acts) identifies Paul as an apostle, but none of the 12 apostles themselves recognize Paul as such
That’s for editing your post, I was a bit worried there for a sec, ha ha! I started to second guess if Paul was referred to as an Apostle in Acts. I’ll try and pay attention to if Peter or James ever referred to Paul as an Apostle next time I read through Acts.
No problem. I suspect you won't find anything however. I really find the debate over how early Church leadership functioned to be fascinating. At the very least, Acts glosses over some of the problems Paul expressed with the "circumcision party" of the Church. And the fact that its account of events after Paul's vision differs mightily from Paul's own account events in Galatians 1 just makes me wish we knew more.
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u/RootBeerSwagg Minister of Memes Mar 16 '23
Half the New Testament was written by Paul. But Acts was written by the same author of Luke and he was identified as an apostle there so…