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2017 The tone of the article has gotten notably worse since I first looked at the page over a year ago. When one does any kind of Internet search on NAR to see what rises to the top, what is seen is the following: you cannot find anyone in recent years using this term as a self-identifier. Wagner is dead, so even he is not championing the cause any longer. Wagner defined this term in a nebulous way and did not create an actual group with membership. That he called ICA which is now ICAL and membership is based on money and getting current members to sponsor you. You could argue that NAR is now a dead term, something only from history. Or that it has merely devolved into a pejorative. What is going on with the term in 2017 is that there are two distinct groups that both are using the term as a pejorative. The first, and original, is a group of conservative Christians who label those they have a theological disagreement with as NAR, where they act as prosecutor, then they act as jury, judge and executioner. No evidence is presented to even prove that this person or group is NAR. They simply receive a summary execution without evidence. All this based on a disagreement over what an Apostle really is, what his office is or is not, if they have been extinct for millennia, should they stay that way and what their duties are. In their book NAR = Heretic.