I’m a former Seventh-Day Adventist, struggling to stay afloat, since I’ve abandoned my raft and I’m making my way to the Ship (as you explain it). A month ago I began reading the Catechism to dialogue with Catholicism (something which is considered heretical in SDA, a position I can’t understand as I have a Catholic background, being the only SDA in my family). And that reading convinced me I was aboard the wrong vessel, but didn’t quite made my mind if I were to swim to the Ship.
I watched many conversion stories and many spoke about Peter being the rock, and I got angrier each time: Peter isn’t the rock! The confession of Jesus being the Son of God is the Rock! Petros means pebble and Petra means rock! I said to myself.
Until last week I couldn’t stand it… I’ve studied Greek! I will show them! See… Petros, Petra! There’s a difference! Let’s see in a dictionary: Petros is pebble, and Petra is rock.
But another dictionary said they both meant the same… Mmm… I became suspicious… Because I realized the first was a Protestant dictionary, and the second one was Catholic. So I checked my old Greek dictionary from when I studied classics… They have no theological bias… And lo and behold: both words mean rock, cliff, cavern…
I searched both words in the Greek Bible, and in the LXX both words are used indistinctly to mean rock, cliff, cavern. So I called a friend of mine who studies at a Catholic Seminary (while I study in an Adventist Seminary) and told him laughing: I have a problem… I’m becoming Catholic…
You made the claim and I flat out refuted it with facts which you just gloss right over.
Cephas means pebble.
NO IT DOESNT.
So now that you know CEPHAS means ROCK then you can apply that to scripture. Oh well look, Jesus was renaming Jonah to ROCK. He is not saying Simon is THE ROCK as in Jesus but Peter's answer is the rock upon which the Church will be built. The Church is built on the rock of truth that is JESUS IS GOD. Peter's answer is the truth upon which the rest of the religion sits.
Ring ring, anyone home?
How hard is this?
You just desperately don't want to be wrong or Catholic, which is wild. It's the one true religion established by Jesus. We are not Satanists and Q didn't post Vigano letters because Catholicism is Satanism.
“TO FIGHT AGAINST PAPACY IS A SOCIAL NECESSITY AND CONSTITUTES THE CONSTANT DUTY OF FREEMASONRY.” (Masonic International Congress held in Brussels 1904, page 132 of the report.)
No, it does not.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cephas
https://www.catholic.com/tract/peter-the-rock
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095559694;jsessionid=921B318EC5B5EDBEA23330C5F3D14ED8?rskey=Vt7Dg0&result=4
Now go look it up in a Greek dictionary.
Further reading about exactly what you've been lied to about: https://www.catholic.com/tract/peter-the-rock
And just for fun...
https://catholicconvert.com/did-jesus-re-name-simon-the-rock-confusion-with-petra-cephas-rock-and-peter/
All of that and no answers to the very real questions.
Who's the stone the builders rejected?
What is a corner stone?
No, you are throwing out a red herring.
You made the claim and I flat out refuted it with facts which you just gloss right over.
NO IT DOESNT.
So now that you know CEPHAS means ROCK then you can apply that to scripture. Oh well look, Jesus was renaming Jonah to ROCK. He is not saying Simon is THE ROCK as in Jesus but Peter's answer is the rock upon which the Church will be built. The Church is built on the rock of truth that is JESUS IS GOD. Peter's answer is the truth upon which the rest of the religion sits.
Ring ring, anyone home? How hard is this?
You just desperately don't want to be wrong or Catholic, which is wild. It's the one true religion established by Jesus. We are not Satanists and Q didn't post Vigano letters because Catholicism is Satanism.
“TO FIGHT AGAINST PAPACY IS A SOCIAL NECESSITY AND CONSTITUTES THE CONSTANT DUTY OF FREEMASONRY.” (Masonic International Congress held in Brussels 1904, page 132 of the report.)