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No. There is a good deal more inferential Scriptural evidence, as well as historical evidence from the very earliest days of the Church, but that verse is sufficient in itself.

I'm sure that same answer is used to validate the "Hail Mary full of grace" seed of the whole Marian doctrine thing. Such "evidence" has never really materialized though I've read many RC apologetics that try to support Marianism.

And, by the way, the verse is in no way sufficient in itself. There is no support that anything that the Lord may have given to Peter at that time survived Peter.

95 posted on 07/19/2007 9:12:42 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)

"And, by the way, the verse is in no way sufficient in itself. There is no support that anything that the Lord may have given to Peter at that time survived Peter."

Wrong. Read the books and educate yourself. I did, and that's part of the reason I'm no longer Protestant. There's lots of evidence--but Protestants choose to simply ignore it.

And I say again---many Protestant positions have been justified with flimsier Biblical backing.