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Oh, please. What a mismash of verses.

Peter being the Rock?

Isa 44:8 'Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none.'"

Peter being given the Keys to Heaven?

Rev 1:18 and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Peter being the shepherd?

Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,

Peter being the one to bind?

Mat 18:16-18 "Mat 18:16 "But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

Teaching authority of Peter?

2Pe 3:15-16 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Avoiding the simple Scriptural verses will not prevent the obvious interpretation that followed within the Catholic Church within the first century AD. Regarding your comments:

Peter being the Rock?

A rock is not always God. Metaphors do not have to exactly match among different human authors!

Peter being given the Keys to Heaven?

Do you perceive that Jesus ACTUALLY HANDED PETER KEYS??? It refers to Peter's new authority that he would have once Christ ascended into heaven. And EVEN if you thought they were real keys, might Christ have another set? I have two sets of my house...Christ certainly didn't give up His power, He is delegating it.

Peter being the shepherd?

FEED MY SHEEP, Christ said in John's Gospel. That's what shepherds do. Are you again saying that Christ can't delegate His authority since He is not visible present on earth (we won't discuss the Eucharist, as it doesn't "talk")

Peter being the one to bind?

ALL of the Apostles, including Peter have this power. But the keeper of the keys has more responsibility. If you go on vacation and give your keys of the house to your neighbor, doesn't he have authority over your house while you are gone???

Teaching authority of Peter?

I don't understand your point on that one. Peter, as highest visible teacher of the Church, is writing pastorally to others to be careful of not twisting Paul's meaning of Scripture. He certainly isn't saying "I don't understand it!" Paul EXPLICITLY visited PETER for two weeks to make sure that Paul had the same Gospel given to the Apostles...Who do you think was learning from whom? Peter lived with Christ for 3 years!

Brother in Christ