[Invincibly Ignorant]

Funny how it was accepted by those who actually HEARD the Words of Jesus, and for several hundred years afterward, since they were the ones who spread Jesus's Word from the ONLY Christian denomination, which eventually came to be called the Catholic Church.

Funny how its still your interpretation.

[SuziQ]

OK, so you don’t believe the Gospels when they say that Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, said those words to Peter? It was these men who guided and directed the fledgling Church. I don’t think I’m interpreting anything to say that they must have accepted Jesus’s command to ‘Feed my Sheep’ when he put Peter in charge of them. They sure seemed to accept him as the one Jesus left in charge; they seemed to interpret Jesus’s Words in that way. If THEY did this, I don’t see how we should think WE know better.