4074 Pétros (a masculine noun) – properly, a stone (pebble), such as a small rock found along a pathway. 4074 /Pétros ("small stone") then stands in contrast to 4073 /pétra ("cliff, boulder," Abbott-Smith).
If you are going to base over 1,000 years of a human insitution on that single, ambiguous (and technically wrong as interpreted by the RCC, as evidenced by the Greek above) verse, I don't know what to tell you, except that it's a flawed arguement. But we know the RCC is full of those, depending on the ignorance of their faithful serfs to keep playing the game.
Verse 18 starts with the conjunction 'and' which means we need to back up a few verses to verse 15 to see what Jesus is talking about. Jesus asked Peter, Whom do you say that I am? Peter replies,”Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”. Then Jesus said to Peter that this was revealed to him by God, the Father. It is on the confession and truth of Peter’s statement, ”Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” that Jesus built His church, not on the person of Peter. Furthermore if Christ DID mean to say He was building His church on Peter (He didn't), He would have said "on this pétros I am building my church", or else, He would have named Peter 'Pétra'.
It is generally bad form to pick out a verse and build a doctrine on it.
Kek's for last: If Peter was the first pope (he wasn't, pope is not Biblical), he has to hold a world record for how quickly a pope went from infallibility into heresy! See Matthew 16:23.
My heart sings with JOY at the mere suggestion of this idea.
We need a FAITHFUL-to-the-Gospels pope!!!
The two are mutually exclusive.
Respectfully disagree.
Source: Scripture.
Where?
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
-Matthew 23:9
Show me. Please don't say Matthew 16:18
4074 Pétros (a masculine noun) – properly, a stone (pebble), such as a small rock found along a pathway. 4074 /Pétros ("small stone") then stands in contrast to 4073 /pétra ("cliff, boulder," Abbott-Smith).
If you are going to base over 1,000 years of a human insitution on that single, ambiguous (and technically wrong as interpreted by the RCC, as evidenced by the Greek above) verse, I don't know what to tell you, except that it's a flawed arguement. But we know the RCC is full of those, depending on the ignorance of their faithful serfs to keep playing the game.
Verse 18 starts with the conjunction 'and' which means we need to back up a few verses to verse 15 to see what Jesus is talking about. Jesus asked Peter, Whom do you say that I am? Peter replies,”Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”. Then Jesus said to Peter that this was revealed to him by God, the Father. It is on the confession and truth of Peter’s statement, ”Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” that Jesus built His church, not on the person of Peter. Furthermore if Christ DID mean to say He was building His church on Peter (He didn't), He would have said "on this pétros I am building my church", or else, He would have named Peter 'Pétra'.
It is generally bad form to pick out a verse and build a doctrine on it.
Kek's for last: If Peter was the first pope (he wasn't, pope is not Biblical), he has to hold a world record for how quickly a pope went from infallibility into heresy! See Matthew 16:23.
The first American Pope: Fafo the First.
Fun fact: His father, Hutton Gibson, was the winner of the 1968 Jeopardy Tournament of Champions.
Vigano all the way.
AMEN !!
LOL...just release The Passion of The Christ 2 already, please and thank you!
This would be epic.😁
😂😁😁🙌🏼