They are different words in each language and have different meanings.Salvation, you are still beating a dead horse. Certainly they are different words in different languages, but the New Testament was written in GREEK. The RCC translated that into Latin and then established itself as the arbiter o the meaning, OPPOSITE that which the GREEK provides.
Even after all the Scriptures are provided to you, without interpretation, the RC's on this board still maintain that their traditions trump the Word of God.
Jesus is the Rock, and Peter was just one of the boys! Jesus is the head of the church, and your Popes are nothing but pretenders!
Greek: kepha kephas Latin: petros petra
They are different words in each language and have different meanings.
Boy, are you wrong. Kephas is Aramaic and petros is Greek and Latin.
Matthew 16:18 - http://bible.cc/matthew/16-18.htm
Jesus said that Peter was *petros*(masculine) and that on this *petra*(feminine) He would build His church.
Greek: 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).
“4074 (Pétros) is an isolated rock and 4073 (pétra) is a cliff” (TDNT, 3, 100). “4074 (Pétros) always means a stone . . . such as a man may throw, . . . versus 4073 (pétra), a projecting rock, cliff” (S. Zodhiates, Dict).
4073 pétra (a feminine noun) – “a mass of connected rock,” which is distinct from 4074 (Pétros) which is “a detached stone or boulder” (A-S). 4073 (pétra) is a “solid or native rock, rising up through the earth” (Souter) – a huge mass of rock (a boulder), such as a projecting cliff.
4073 (petra) is “a projecting rock, cliff (feminine noun) . . . 4074 (petros, the masculine form) however is a stone . . . such as a man might throw” (S. Zodhiates, Dict).
It’s also a strange way to word the sentence that He would call Peter a rock and say that on this I will build my church instead of *on you* as would be grammatically correct in talking to a person.
There is no support from the original Greek that Peter was to be the rock on which Jesus said he would build His church. The nouns are not the same, one being masculine and the other being feminine. They denote different objects.
Peter (given name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_%28given_name%29