Thank you for posting Peter’s response “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” I thought about that while I was driving home just now. It is sort of surprising to me on this thread that some think that Bono’s courageous (and let’s face it.....to declare Jesus the Christ and Son of God today is courageous) response as timid, half hearted, incorrect, or misleading. On the contrary, Bono gave the same response as Peter did, and Jesus lauded him for it ,saying it was revealed to him from God.
And Jesus told him that he had NOT figured that out on his own; but that the Holy Spirit had revealed it to him.