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Yeah, and you're making my point for me. Those who should have, evidently, gotten it right, did and had plenty of time to do so. Want another piece of trivia? Every instance of the use of Petra in the NT is listed in the list below:
Matt 7:24-25 "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his hous upon a rock (Petra). [25] And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock(Petra)."
Matthew 16:18 "And I say also unto thee, that thou art Petros and upon this Petra I will build my Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail."
-seems that Jesus was abiding by his own lesson from earlier on. You build a house on a Big rock, not a smaller piece of one...
Matthew 27:60 "And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock (petra); and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed."
Can't cut a tomb out of a piece of rock - has to be the Big stuff!
Mark 15:46 "And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock(petra), and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre." -- see matthew 27:60 above.
Luke 6:48 "He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundatin on a rock(petra!); and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock(petra)." -- dug deep (ie bedrock).
Luke 8:6 "And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away because it lacked moisture."
Luke 8:13 "They on the rock(petra)are they, which, when they hear receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away."
Romans 9:33 "As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and a rock(petra) of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."
1 Cor 10:4 "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock(petra) that followed them: and that Rock(petra) was Christ."
1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling and a rock(petra) of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed."
Wow, Even Peter, who should know he's supposed to be called Petra uses the word petra ONCE in two books and in mentioning his own name uses Petros. LOLOL.
Now, anyone have some Halelujahs to sound out! Praise God. And ya'll have been quoting these verses as authoritative - probably not realizing just how authoritative they are! Peter was in the presence of the petra, but nowhere in the entire NT is he referred to as petra, that is reserved to Jesus - Completly! The other indications show us how big Petra as actual rock is You cannot hew out a small rock and make a tomb in it - not even with median sized rocks (stuff you struggle to pick up or what you make statuary from). You can't build a house on small or median sized rocks. and there's nothing small about bedrock. Any questions?