[OLD REGGIE]

You apparently are reading the gospels as if they were daily diaries.

By the time John's gospel was put into writing Simon Peter was simply the clearest way to describe the man.

You apparently are reading the gospels as if they don't accurately describe chronological events? A book written in 2004 which states the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 can't be correct by your standards.

The first meeting between Jesus and Simon was when Jesus named him Peter. ("You shall be called Cephas", which means Peter.)

[iconoclast]

The first meeting between Jesus and Simon was when Jesus named him Peter. ("You shall be called Cephas", which means Peter.

God does not exist in your sense of time. He knew Simon Peter would establish his Church before Eve accepted the apple from the serpent.