2007-07-05 23:45:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All believers are deciles, if you have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior you're a disciple of His.
An Apostle is someone who receieved personal teaching by Jesus or was personally appointed by Him to be used to spread His message.
Btw, The Bible refers to Paul as an Apostle even though he was not part of the original 12. But he was personally appointed by Jesus to spread His message.
2007-07-05 23:49:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
An apostle preaches or teaches a disciple follows so a disciple can be an apostle as well but not all of them are
2007-07-05 23:49:26 · answer #2 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is similar to some of the previous replies, the 12 Chief disciples of Christ were apostles because they received the "holy word" from Jesus himself......but...
Paul too was an apostle... but he's never met Jesus when Jesus was on earth. There is one story of Paul meeting a "spirit form Jesus", isnt communicating with spirits back then a major transgression? If Paul's never met him, how does he know the "spirit" he met was Jesus and not some demon masquerading as Christ ( thats what Christians tell people who communicate with spirits via mediums)? How does all that fit in? If so... then does that make Paul's teachings, letters and commandments "questionable"?
Curiously
Tiara
2007-07-05 23:56:48 · answer #3 · answered by Tiara 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An Apostle teaches and preachers and a Disciple is a follower of Christ
2007-07-06 00:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those that are personally taught by the original teacher are Apostles, they have first hand knowledge of the teachings.Whether it was Jesus or Socrates, they both had Apostles. Disciples try to lead their lives by those teachings. Christians are disciples of Jesus, and Doctors are disciples of Socrates.
2016-05-19 21:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that an apostle is some kind of religious teacher,and a disciple is a religious follower Daisy
2007-07-06 00:03:55 · answer #6 · answered by daisy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All true followers of Christ are Christian disciples but apostles are people...not just in the Bible...but people in the modern day who are directly appointed to their ministries to give Gods word to the people....I don't mean your pastors or vicars or whatever..although some are...but those people who are Apostlised by God, through Jesus and via the Holy Spirit for specific function...a go between for God and the people and having direct communication from God. His/her function is to be a 'spokesman/woman for God.
Best wishes, Mike.
2007-07-06 01:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by georgiansilver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apostle means sent out. Jesus was God's primary apostle. Heb 3:1
The 12 were Jesus' primary apostles, his general apostles constitute all the remainder of the Saints.
A disciple as the dictionary says is :"2. any follower of Christ."
2007-07-06 00:16:25 · answer #8 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
apostle : from the Greek apo- (off, out, away) + stellein (to send). One who is sent out with a specific mission, message, or purpose. The best example is the twelve followers of Jesus that He trained and chose to lead His other followers. An apostle bears the authority of the sender to act on the sender's behalf on all matters related to the mission he/she is sent to do. This word should not be viewed as a 'religious' term, since it was used for envoys and delegates in all sorts of contexts.
In the first chapter of Acts, the apostles chose Matthias to join their ranks; later on Paul was recognized as an apostle 'untimely born'. The reason the early church stopped calling their leaders 'apostles' is that Jesus was no longer around to choose and send out people, and those who had been sent by Jesus were dying off. The Church could choose and send, but the Church is not Jesus. So, they called their chosen leaders by the names of their tasks : deacons, presbyters, bishops, and so on. These people are part of the apostolic train, but are not themselves apostles. There are church leaders today who call themselves 'apostles' or claim the full authority of an apostle, but noone has seen Jesus walking with them and teaching them. For the most part, they sent themselves, or gave broad hints to their own loyal followers to get them to do it. There are also some in Pentecostal circles who think that in the end-times, God will raise up 'super-apostles'. That's just a bad guess. In Scripture, God repeatedly chooses to work through dangerously flawed people, not supermen.
2007-07-05 23:58:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the New Testament the apostles were the 12 men chosen by Jesus to whom he gave authority to carry on the mission of the church. Disciples were all the other people who believed in him. I am a bit stunned that only atheists seem to know this. Its an extremely simple question.
2007-07-05 23:52:08 · answer #10 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋