[CynicalBear]

>> In all seriousness, why did Christ single out Simon and rename him Peter (rock) if there is absolutely no significance to it?<<

To be right honest with you I have never done a study on that so don’t have and answer to that that I could stand behind. It surely wasn’t to replace God the Father as the Rock upon which the church is built.

Additionally Jesus gave the “keys of heaven” or the ability to bind and loose to ALL of the apostles in Matthew 18 not just to Peter.

[Rashputin]

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