[AnAmericanMother]

Cephas = rock. Aramaic doesn't have gender. It's right there in John's Gospel, you can't shut your eyes to it. (Well, I guess you can, but you're ignoring that Scripture you claim has primacy over everything else.)

The Greek has gender, so petra simply becomes Petros as more appropriate for a male.

When you can actually read the original, get back with us. You're arguing on shifting sand with a paucity of real world linguistic experience. C.S. Lewis said something about people who study the Bible under a microscope but neglect everything else (like Greek, Aramaic, and basic grammar).

[RaceBannon]

Go back and read what I posted,

ROCK was NEVER used ANYWHERE in scripture to assign attributes to a man, only to God

Else the word rock meant rock

or, like someone showed in Isaiah, rock was a symbolic place of where Israel was stuck, hewn to a rock

Just go back ad read the details

this is really getting tiresome with peole just repeating mantras, either address the postings or drop it.

You cannot defeat what the Bible says no matter how many times you guys try, Peter is not the ROCK, GOD, JESUS BEING THE MESSIAH is the ROCK