Peter is the ROCK of the church because Jesus said so.
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
"I TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE ROCK AND ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT OVERCOME IT"
Jesus renamed Simon.
"Peter" (Aramaic: Cephas or Greek: Petros) means literally means "rock" in Koine Greek, the language which the New Testament was written. It was not a regular name at the time, but Jesus made it so by changing Simon's name to Peter. The Greek words petrosand petra where masculine and feminine forms of the same word in Koine Greek. In Attic Greek they were two different words but that was not the language of the New Testament.
The Jews and the non-Catholic Romans.
It's Roman because Peter was in...ROME.
Peter means ROCK.
Peter wasn't his real first name. Jesus renamed him to ROCK.
HMMMMMMMMM.
So Jesus is not the rock? Peter is?
It was Peter that was the stumbling block to the Jews!
Peter is that rock that destroyed the Nebuchadnezzar statue and became a mountain.
Peter was what Moses struck in the desert so that the Jews could have water.
Makes so much sense now, thanks!
Jesus is the ROCK of salvation.
Peter is the ROCK of the church because Jesus said so.
"I TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE ROCK AND ON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT OVERCOME IT"
Jesus renamed Simon.
"Peter" (Aramaic: Cephas or Greek: Petros) means literally means "rock" in Koine Greek, the language which the New Testament was written. It was not a regular name at the time, but Jesus made it so by changing Simon's name to Peter. The Greek words petrosand petra where masculine and feminine forms of the same word in Koine Greek. In Attic Greek they were two different words but that was not the language of the New Testament.