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I can’t believe missed the obvious.

“This rock” is THE SPECIFIC reference to Jesus being the MESSIAH (the Christ). It wasnt about Peter— Peter was correct in answering who Jesus was: as opposed to others who were saying other things (Elijah,etc).

The fact that Jesus Christ would be the one who builds the church, himself being the “chief cornerstone”, was a mystery in the O.T., but now it is fulfilled in Him.

Read Ephesians 1-3 S L O W L Y.

18 And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

19 I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Pretty sure he is talking to Peter being the rock to build on. I guess you can interpret it however you want, but I will stick with the 2000 year old interpretation given by Jesus Himself.

If you do not believe the Catholic Church was the church founded by Jesus Christ Himself, how can you then use the Holy Bible at all. If the Church can't be trusted in matters of faith, then you can not rely on the Bible to refute the same Catholic Church that gave it to you.

You really need to study your own faith's beginnings, when it began and why. Unless you are Roman Catholic, your faith teachings were started by someone other the Jesus. They broke away from the Roman Catholic Church at least 500 years ago. Do you really believe the Holy Spirit taught falsely for 1500 years, until Luther came along. Study the early church fathers in relationship to what they believed. I think you will be surprised at what you will learn.