Christ is the Rock; and this role of being Rock is not shared by others. For instance, we also read this in Scripture: 1 Peter 2:5 "...you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house..."
Christ is likewise the foundation: 1 Corinthians 3:11 "For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ"
And yet Scripture also says: Revelation 21:14 " The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."
Clearly these are roles which Christ shares with His Apostles. And who is pre-eminent among Christ's chosen Twelve? Obviously, Peter, whom Christ CALLS "this Rock." Notice that Jesus does not say,"Upon Myself, the Rock" or "upon the rock of your testimony." He says, "Thou art Cephas (Peter), and upon this Rock. The demonstrative article. The one I just named.
The writers of the New Testament agree in this pre-eminence. Peter's prominence is pretty obvious.
Number of times mentioned in the New Testament:
"The Twelve": 25
James (Apostle): 38
John ...(Apostle): 39
John (the Baptist): 100
Peter... ..(Apostle): 173 (and if you include the phrase, "Simon BarJonah") Peter/Simon is mentioned by name 204 times.
(And all the times he's called "Simon Peter" I just counted as once.)
This doesn't prove "everything," but it does illustrate Peter's sheer dominance as someone whom Christ singled out as leader and, often, spokesman for the other Apostles. He's the leader of the "living stones."
"Thou art Cephas (English: Peter; literal translation: Rock)
and upon this Cephas (trans: this Rock, not "some other rock," but this Rock right here, i.e. Peter)
I will build My Church."
If that's not clear enough, I'll get out my big ol' blinking neon arrows...
Thanks.
But, not my interpretation of those passages.
Paul is mentioned 240 times!
The thinking you are proposing shifts our faith from Christ and places it in legalism.
Our priority is with faith through Christ prior to any other. Additionally, anything added to that faith voids that faith.
The rock of Peter was his faith, not his person.
Rather than arguments, a better use of time is for us to study beneath our respective pastor-teachers, continually thinking the doctrines of Scripture, remaining in fellowship with God through faith in Him and in that fellowship allowing Him to further sanctify us as His body.