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Peter spoke with authority and that was that. Once Peter speaks with authority only protestants protest. There were no protestants in that local Council. You are all Protestant Hat with no Doctrinal cattle. All your "doctrine" is based upon Catholic authority. It is solely from the authority of the Catholic church that you even have the New Testament with which to wrestle to your own destruction. It is the Catholic Church which has the sole authority to teach what it means.

Well, last I checked, the Roman Papacy was the very definition of "All Hat and No Cattle":

"Worship the Hat! Worship the Hat!! The Great Big Hat proves that I am the Supreme Vicar of Jesus Christ! Don't you see my great big huge three-tiered Hat? Am I not the True Successor to the Humble Son of Man, because I have a Great Big Hat? WORSHIP THE GREAT BIG HAT!!"

But you are right about this: Calvinist Doctrine is based upon CATHOLIC authority -- that is, universal Christian authority, established back in the days of Saint Augustine and well before.

But you are UTTERLY WRONG if you think that my Church was based upon the false usurpation of Roman Catholic Authority.

The Scottish Church was originally founded by Greek Missionaries from Asia Minor, NOT the later domination of Roman Papacy; and Calvinism traces its spiritual heritage to that foundation, AND NOT the later megalomaniacal claims of the Roman Pope.

The Christianity preached in the Scotland of that day was the same full-orbed system, the same galaxy of glorious truths, plain yet profound, simple yet surpassingly sublime, which constitutes the Christianity of this hour. Geneva shakes hand with Iona across the gulf of a thousand years.

Best, OP

David Hill.Presbyterian minister at the University of Sheffield : David Hill, The Gospel of Matthew, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1972

It is on Peter himself, the confessor of his Messiahship, that Jesus will build the Church. Attempts to interpret the 'rock' as something other than Peter in person (e.g. his faith, Jesus, etc.) are due to Protestant bias, and introduce to the statement a degree of which is highly unlikely

*Have a good night's sleep,brother

But you are UTTERLY WRONG if you think that my Church was based upon the false usurpation of Roman Catholic Authority.

The Scottish Church was originally founded by Greek Missionaries from Asia Minor, NOT the later domination of Roman Papacy; and Calvinism traces its spiritual heritage to that foundation, AND NOT the later megalomaniacal claims of the Roman Pope.

I did not know that. Thank you for that information.