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To: boatbums

No, now you’re making stuff up. Jesus never said Peter was a piece of rock. As a matter fact, Christ renamed Simon as Peter, His rock.


192 posted on 09/23/2016 10:16:32 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
No, now you’re making stuff up. Jesus never said Peter was a piece of rock. As a matter fact, Christ renamed Simon as Peter, His rock.

I'M making stuff up??? Jesus IS the rock (petra) - plenty of Scriptural proof for that - and Peter is a little rock or a piece of the rock (petros). Peter, as did the rest of the Apostles were commissioned/sent by Jesus to win souls to Christ, disciple other leaders and help build up local assemblies throughout the known world, and they did. I hope you realize that if you really believe it is Peter on whom the church of Christ is built, then there would no longer be a foundation once Peter was martyred. You cannot claim that Peter somehow passed down his "rockness" to others because Jesus did not give him that power. Only Jesus is the true rock of our faith. I worship him, not Peter.

195 posted on 09/23/2016 10:25:44 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: ebb tide
Cephas/Kephas means rock in Aramaic. The Messiah named Simon (Simeon) Kephas for a reason ...
208 posted on 09/24/2016 11:31:33 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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