SilenceInMotion
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Jesus changed Simon's name to Peter. Do you know what the name Peter means?williemac said:This whole precept is based on an assumption of the meaning of a passage. Jesus said to Peter. that his revelation of who Jesus is came from God and not man. Then He said on this rock I will build My church. Just because He called Peter a rock, are we to believe that He was telling us that He was building an organization on Peter????
Or was He referring to building His church on the foundation (rock) of Himself and the revelation of who He is? Sounds more like it! From one passage, there would be no outright proof of either to build a doctrine on. But the real sad fact here is that in the first place, the true church is not even an organization. It is rather all the people that make up what is called the body of Christ. And we know from other scripture that Jesus is the chief cornerstone, as confirmed by Paul (Eph.4:11), and Peter (1Pet.2:7), and Jesus (Math.21:42, Mrk12:10), and Luke (Acts 4:11). Jesus Himself is also called a Rock (1Cor.10:4, Rom.9:33) by Paul and by Peter (1Pet.2:8).
The evidence is overwhelming and even completely logical that the rock that the church is built on is none other than Jesus Himself, and not a mere man. The wording.."on this rock" does not even make sense if He was referring to Peter while talking to Peter. He would have said "on you". How stupid. How pathetic that men would hold men on a pedistle, praying to dead people, worshipping a woman, and making a man their head rather than Christ, who is actually even called the Head of the church. (Eph.5:23)
This is why there is a protestant church of people. It finally ocurred to someone that the Catholics were off their "rock"er. :blink:
*drumroll*
ROCK.
Derived from the word 'petrus'.
Furthermore, if you look at the verses below and above Matthew 16:18, you will see that God is blessing Peter, and giving him the apostolic power of the Keys. In Acts 2, you see a rather dramatic display of Peter exercising this power.
Protestants lose this argument. They lose it bad. A person thinking they can so easily take away what the entirety of the Catholic Church is fundamentally built on is laughable. Even the Greek Orthodox churches, who dissented from the Church because of differences of belief on bishopric power, do not even deny it because it is simply asinine to do so.