[Cicero]

No one, Protestant or Catholic, disputes your point. Jesus was the stone Whom the builders rejected which became the cornerstone (or keystone of the arch). Nevertheless, the Peter's name was Simon until Jesus changed it, in this very passage. God renames those whom He means to begin life over again for a special purpose, as he did with Abram, Sarai, Jacob, and Saul. "Peter" means rock, in both Greek and Latin.

[BibChr]

Actually, Jesus had already changed Peter's name at an earlier point. And He carefully distinguishes, in the inerrant Greek text we possess, between petros (masculine; Peter, proper name) and the petra (feminine; large mass) upon which He would build his church. Had He meant Peter, there are so many ways He could have expressed the idea more clearly in Greek. Language and context and damningly against the notion.

Dan

[Mr. Bob]

Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." "This is the rock."