Junia (New Testament person)
According to professor and pastor [[Gilbert Bilezikian]], the term "apostle" connotes the highest level of leadership and authority in the early church. Initially, only the original disciples (meaning "students", "learners") of Jesus were called "apostles" (meaning "those sent forth with a mission). After Jesus' resurrection, the designation was given to missionaries involved in establishing churches and who saw the resurrected Christ before his [[Ascension of Jesus|ascension]]. This included more than "five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time" and then Paul himself. After that, the appellation of apostle was extended to Christian disciples who had never seen Christ but who were pioneer missionaries, such as Apollos, Epaphroditus, Sylvanus and Timothy. The description of "apostles" as one of the three higher spiritual gifts that Christians should desire is evidence of continued accessibility to this ministry for qualified persons. They could aspire to become apostles, prophets, or teachers. Bilezikian writes that the term "apostle" was still used in this broad sense in the post-apostolic writing of the [[Didache]].
Judeo-nazarenism
We see how the opposition to the faith of the Apostles is radical: to them, Jesus is not the savior for himself, so he has nothing divine (because only God can deliver from evil); it is only the Messiah, a super employee of God, miraculously born by the action of the Holy Spirit in Mary - this is exactly the position taken by the Muslims and the Quran, which employs four times the expression "Messiah Jesus "controversy vigorously against the" Jews "who deny the miraculous conception of Mary and treat her as prostitute (actually, it alludes in the Talmud-s and the ToseftaHullin). For example Eusebius (263-339) reports that some "Ebionites" - those who call themselves Nazarenes - "did not deny that the Lord was born of a virgin and of the Holy Spirit ... [but] they do not confess he was God the Word and Wisdom pre-existing "(Hist. eccl., III, from 27.44 to 45). In fact, the main criticism is to "Jews" they don’t believe and want to kill their Messiah, so be damned. Epiphane in his Panarion 30.7 indicates that Nazôraïoï "are the great enemies of the Jews. Not only Jews children are full of hatred towards them, but in the morning, at noon and night, three times a day, when they gather to pray in their synagogues, they curse them and anathematized saying, God cursed the Nazarenes "