The foundation is NOT the apostles and prophets...The foundation of the apostles and prophets is Jesus Christ...More specifically, the words of Jesus Christ, the Bible...
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The perceived pillars don't build the foundation...They built upon the foundation...
1Co 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1Co 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
The foundation that Paul laid is the words of Jesus Christ...
1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
More specifically, the words of Jesus Christ, the scriptures...
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
1Ti 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
So what is the church of the living God???
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
The church of the living God is the house of God...And the house is spiritual...It is not physical...The church is not a building or a group of cardinals or a pope or a Magisterium or a visible institution...It is spiritual...You can't see it...And again, the pillar (singular) and ground (singular) of the truth is the words of the living God...
If you would check a variety of translations, you will get the solid realization that we, the church, God's assembly, are to be this pillar and foundation upholding the truth, which is Jesus ("I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life").
And they all disagree with each other...Why would I use sources that disagree with each other...That would be like reading the Septuagint...
WHAT is the pillar and foundation( or ground - buttress - base - strong foundation- support - foundation-stone) of the Truth? It is the church
Well that's a flat out lie...
--- the ekklesia ("called-out ones"), us, the members of the church.
I don't believe your Church has ever portrayed itself as the ekklesia...Can the members of your Church vote out your pope, cardinals or bishops, or the magisterium??? Your Church is known as an institution...It's 'head' is in Rome and even claims your Church is actually Jesus Christ (his body)...
However, the scriptures always straighten out the false teachings of Rome...
I could certainly agree with that, but if one would rather stay in the false teachings of Rome, then we have a problem. 👍
But Rome teachs (Contrary to what USED to be taught) that IT is the foundation - that guy Peter you know.