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Please, there is absolutely no evidence of Peter having a wife that was alive when Jesus called him. And don't tell me that even the Catholic Church does not deny it because in this case I think they may not have thought it was anything to hang their hat on because it did not matter. However I now think it probably does matter and I repeat there is no substantive evidence that he hung around with anybody but his mother-in-law. With respect to Corinthians 9;5 there is a difference of opinion between translations and the Douay-Rheims and the NAB both say the scripture reads women or sisters. I saw the Vulgate and it does not say uxor which I remember from Latin meant wife. So I will agree to disagree but I think I am correct and think you need to consider why if he had a wife she let her old mother get out of bed and "serve" the men. I"ve a good mind to call Patricia Ireland and the troops from NOW on those men right now. So there!!!

And those gals could probably deal all of Christendom the death blow,so you just be careful.

Peter's wife is documented in the Bible. When he married has little impact on your story. That he was married is without doubt, seemingly, to everyone but you. And trying to make excuses to get around it doesn't change the fact that it's documented in the Bible. To heck with the interpretations - it's in the Greek, and that's good enough. People have a tendancy to translate out of the Bible, things that bother them. The Catholic retranslation of the commandment regarding Idolatry is a benchmark in screwball translations that is pretty well documented. I'm not talking about merely mistaking it's meaning - I'm talking about a thourough rewrite that destroys the language.

Please, there is absolutely no evidence of Peter having a wife that was alive when Jesus called him. And don't tell me that even the Catholic Church does not deny it because in this case I think they may not have thought it was anything to hang their hat on because it did not matter.

I find it interesting that you believe that Peter was in Rome, with out one shred of proof, but you seem ready to argue to the grave that Peter wasn't married.

Or you say his wife was dead because he still had a mother in law, and that Christ would never have called them if they were married.

Well I think you are wrong on both points,

Mt 8:14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.

If his wife was dead, why would it say his wife's mother? By this statement, he is first acknowledging the wife, then the relationship between them.

The term "mother in law" was commonly used, see Mt10:35 and Lk 12:53, and if his wife had been dead, he would have simply referred to his wife's mother as the mother in law.

You said that Jesus would never call married men away from their family

Mt 19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

If Peter forsook all, what was his all he forsook?

Mk 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

28. Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. 29. And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

This statement was made by Christ, and was to these men, but inclusive for time to come, but the simple statement is that between the 12 disciples, all of them had forsaken someone, either, parents, brethren, wife, children, sisters, and since there is ample proof that Peter was married, and his wife was still alive, what are the odds that Christ was referring to one of the other disciples, and not Peter?

SHOW ME IN THE BIBLE WHERE THESE PROMINENT CATHOLIC TEACHINGS ARE FOUND.

Where in the Bible do we find Peter assuming and exercising the role of a Catholic pope?

Where does the Bible say the early churches treated Peter in a papal fashion?

Where does the Bible say that one man is the head of all churches?

Hi JHavard

BigMack