St. Peter was crucified upside down because he requested it. He said he was not worthy to be crucified upright like Jesus. St. Peter was considered the first pope, as Jesus said " And I tell you that you are Peter and on this rock I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
That is what we were told when I went to Catholic school. I always thought it was evil and bad.
I never understood how they pulled a Pope, a person between a person and God, from Peter being the rock. Jesus was the church. Peter was the church. We are the church. It’s in you, not a building. And somehow a figure head rose up out of all that. And a title, and a pope was made. There is no one between a person and Jesus. Not a preacher or am pope. Yet I have talked to many Catholics that have told me that the Pope is the closest to God. The pedestal they place him on. So wrong IMO.
The "Rock" wasn't Peter, but Peter's CONFESSION, the truth that Christ was the promised Messiah, the Son of the Living God. Upon that truth, Jesus said He would build His Church. Eventually Roman papists would corrupt that passage as a way of justifying their power grab over the rest of the Christian churches. It was purely political and evil.
However, as to the declaration: Upon this rock I will build My Church, certainly the Church has not been built upon the authority of man, but upon the ministry of the confession which Peter made, in which he proclaims that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. He accordingly addresses him as a minister: Upon this rock, i.e., upon this ministry. [Therefore he addresses him as a minister of this office in which this confession and doctrine is to be in operation and says: Upon this rock, i.e., this preaching and ministry.]
St. Peter was crucified upside down because he requested it. He said he was not worthy to be crucified upright like Jesus. St. Peter was considered the first pope, as Jesus said " And I tell you that you are Peter and on this rock I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
That is what we were told when I went to Catholic school. I always thought it was evil and bad.
I never understood how they pulled a Pope, a person between a person and God, from Peter being the rock. Jesus was the church. Peter was the church. We are the church. It’s in you, not a building. And somehow a figure head rose up out of all that. And a title, and a pope was made. There is no one between a person and Jesus. Not a preacher or am pope. Yet I have talked to many Catholics that have told me that the Pope is the closest to God. The pedestal they place him on. So wrong IMO.
The "Rock" wasn't Peter, but Peter's CONFESSION, the truth that Christ was the promised Messiah, the Son of the Living God. Upon that truth, Jesus said He would build His Church. Eventually Roman papists would corrupt that passage as a way of justifying their power grab over the rest of the Christian churches. It was purely political and evil.
No, he renamed him. Simon Bar Jonah to Kephr or Petra.
For those still buying Rome's lies:
https://bookofconcord.org/power-and-primacy-of-the-pope/
Or for more modern explanations, and directly addressing the differences between the Greek language:
https://carm.org/roman-catholicism/is-peter-the-rock-on-which-the-church-is-built/
http://www.wordoftruthradio.com/questions/47.html