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To: metmom
That is not evident in the book of Acts or other places in the NT.

It is evident. Peter was the first called. Whenever the Apostles are named in the NT, Peter is always listed first. Many times it's just "Peter and the disciples." Peter is the one called "rock." Peter is the first to be promised the keys to the Kingdom. Peter is told to "tend my Sheep," which signifies him as shepherd of the whole of the church.

There are a number of things like this that can be observed.

Bishops and elders who do not resemble at all the offices the RCC has instituted.

The NT church was a church in its infancy. The church grew; the church matured. The society and culture today does not resemble the first century. But I see how the basic structure of church governance can be observed in the NT; this is brought forth more clearly in the immediate centuries following the Apostles.

The rock is Christ. Paul identifies the rock as Christ in plain, simple, clear words.

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You need to refute that and show how that is wrong.

There's nothing wrong about what Paul says. What's incorrect is your assumption that 1 Cor.10:1-4 has anything to do with what Jesus is speaking of in Matt. 16

In Matt. 16, Jesus is emphasizing the core confessional truth of the future church and making a poin about the ecclesiastical foundation.

In 1 Cor. 10, Paul is showing how the Christ was prefigured in the OT.

These verses are directed to completely different points.

"The rock was Christ" isn't some bit of clarifying text Paul writes with Matt. 16 in mind. The subjects are different. (Matthew's gospel was composed after Paul wrote First Corinthians, in any event).

327 posted on 02/15/2015 4:33:26 PM PST by CpnHook
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To: CpnHook
What's incorrect is your assumption that 1 Cor.10:1-4 has anything to do with what Jesus is speaking of in Matt. 16

 
 
 
 

 
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.


John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?
 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."


1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.


James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
 

 
 
 

336 posted on 02/16/2015 5:11:08 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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