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To: topcat54
Peter (Petros) confesses that Jesus is the Christ, and Jesus responds that on this rock (petra) he will build his church. Most Protestants have insisted that Jesus the Christ is the rock on which the church is built. (Some argued that Peter as the confessor and believer in Christ stood for the faith of the church and in that sense was the rock.) Peter in his first epistle sees Jesus as the rock, calling Jesus the rock of offense (I Pet. 2:8).

424 Moved by the grace of the Holy Spirit and drawn by the Father, we believe in Jesus and confess: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church. From the RC Catechism.

It seems clear to me that any church that places ultimate authority in one man is not consistent with the structure of the church during the Apostolic era.

44 posted on 07/10/2007 11:07:02 AM PDT by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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which is exactly why any religion that put’s it’s faith in every man is mistaken.


46 posted on 07/10/2007 11:08:07 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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