[WVKayaker]

and I showed to you that they are not two different words, rather the same word in two different grammatical cases.

Actually, the distinction does not validate your premise, even if true. I can find a number of sources which disagree with all your drivel. Anybody can post anything, but that doesn't make it so.

Bottom line is to allow Roman Catholics to die in ignorance and worship their goddess mary until the sun sets on their dead body! Unfortunately, that flies in the face of Scripture (again!). We Christians are obligated to point out the errors of the Roman Catholic cult...

Peter was a fisherman. He became a disciple. That's all...

I am a disciple, too! I owned a rocky lot in West Virginia. I have started churches. Does that make me an apostle?

[Cronos]

Actually the distinction does validate my premise that these are the same word in two grammatical cases where Christ clearly says "you are rock and on this rock I will..." -- now as to the premise of what He meant by that you can argue, but as to the grammatical sense of the sentence it is clear -- Simon is the rock on which He will build His Church

Simon was a fisherman, Peter was a fisher of men. He wasn't smarter than or more righteous than or more learned than the other disciples -- he was impetuous, cowardly during Christ's ministry and didn't seem to display any qualities to justify this above statement. Yet Peter is the most mentioned apostle and in the end you see this dumb ox :) calmly obey his Master and head back to be martyred. THAT is the lesson of Peter -- blind trust in JEsus Christ, Lord, God and Savior

Peter was not a monarch over the other apostles but first mentioned among equals, primus inter pares. That is the role for the Papacy among the other bishops. Note though that this is amogn the other bishops who maintained orthodoxy through council, so the wayout beliefs of a Oneness Pentecostal would be non-orthodox

[Cronos]

Doesn’t make you Jesus Christ’s apostle — unlike you, Simon Peter WAS Jesus Christ’s apostle.