>> If you read Josephus again you will notice that he calls Babylon a country. (post #145) <<
Right, and how many times in the New Testament does an apostle refer to being in a city, or to others being in a city? That number has to be in the hundreds. In a country? Zero (unless you count Egypt). What does Babylon mean? The much-beloved-on-this-thread Strong writes, “allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity.”
How strange that the only time an apostle refers to being in a land, it would be a name that would naturally make people think he was referring to another city.
The truth is -that Saint Peter being in Rome was completely agreed upon until the Reformation
This coupled with the fact that the eastern Churches would have used mass propaganda against the west during the schism if there was even a shred of evidence that Peter was never in Rome , once again this shows us that the reformers were not grounded in truth.