Wait, so the Bible says Peter wasn't in Rome. Verse please?
I suppose you didn't hear about the crucified skeleton found beneath the Altar of St. Peter's? Or was that a vile forgery of the Roman Church?
"You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of the netherworld will not prevail against it. What you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and what you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" -- Sounds like Peter is the Vicar.
Our Lord Himself tells the Twelve not to go among the Gentiles [Matthew 10:5]. Was Rome a Gentile city? Of course it was. The Twelve were told to go to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel (the circumcised) instead. (verse 6). Paul was chosen as the Apostles to the Gentiles [Acts 9:15] and he clarifies it further in [Galatians 2:7] by stipulating that he, not Peter, was selected to evangelize the Gentiles.
You can spin it anyway you want....but you cannot deny the plain words of scripture.
I suppose you didn't hear about the crucified skeleton found beneath the Altar of St. Peter's? Or was that a vile forgery of the Roman Church?
It was a Simon alright....but not the one you wish it to be.
Oh no we heard and we've been laughing along with everyone else who heard. Are you referring to Pius XII's Peter bones under the Vatican that turned out to be those of two men in their 50's, a woman in her 70's, a pig, a horse and a chicken? I would love to have seen that crucifixion and burial --- obviously they got the group rate.
Or are you referring to Peter bones of Paul VI that turned out to be those of a shorter [5 feet and 7 inches tall] and younger [age 60 to 70] Peter, that three of the four archeologists involved claimed could not possibly have been the bones of Simon Bar Jonah.
Or is there another set of Peter bones that the magisterium have dug up in that pagan cemetery under the Vatican???
Or have you forgotten about the ossuary of Simon Bar Jonah discovered in 1953 at the monastery of Dominus Flevit there in Jerusalem? Those are the real bones of Peter the Apostle aren't they?
Peter's bones were never in Rome at all and that fact of history is the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the magisterium of the RCC.