Vlad, you are correct, but remember, with protestants, things have to be twisted and distorted from the clear meaning, in this example......the obvious meaning of ‘rock’ is Peter...historically, it has been Peter, but that has to be done away by any and all means.....itz a shame.
“Vlad, you are correct, but remember, with protestants, things have to be twisted and distorted from the clear meaning, in this example......the obvious meaning of ‘rock’ is Peter...historically, it has been Peter, but that has to be done away by any and all means.....itz a shame.”
No such doctrine exists in the Bible, and Peter himself in Acts as well as in 2 Peter calls Christ the cornerstone, and themselves and all believers as “lively stones.” It was a “illustrated lesson,” using Peter’s name, which means a “rock,” and directed him to the rock of the Church, which is Christ, the foundation of the church. Peter was never exalted over the other Apostles, nor did he ever exalt himself over them. All performed the same functions. There is, similarly, no indication that the Apostles as an office would ever pass into the future. There were not 12 rival popes... their task was handed off to the rest of us collectively, to preach the Gospel against the enemy of this world, picking up where the Apostles left off.
The Primacy of Rome was a later invention.