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Originally Posted by Revelationist

I have to wonder what organization the Apostles were part of?

Well, they were called Christians first at Antioch, but the scripture and history does record the early Catholics as being the first group to come out of the organization established by Jesus and start their own new thing.

As I discussed in a few messages before in this thread, after the early catholics departed from the faith and got their own teachers and started their own new "christian denomination" outside of the authority that Jesus said up, there must have been methods used to those who remained in the faith to determine if a traveling evangelist was of those inside the faith or of those who rebelled and started their own new thing. Scripture itself shows us some ways of determining which group a person may belong to.