[dangerdoc]

I think that it is a waste of time to argue details that are peripheral to salvation.

When jesus says this is the rock I will build my churce upon he may have been talking about Peter (translates to small stone) or he may have been talking about the stone rejected by the builder, the stumbling stone, the rock, truth and light all ways that he described himself. Please forgive the paraphrasing, I don't have a Bible handy.

If Peter is at the pearly gate, I am happy to say, I will be there to shake his hand. I think alot of time and blood has been wasted over whether dunk vs. sprinkle, wine vs. juice, ect.

I do think that religion should be scripture based but in the end, religion will get nobody to heaven. Salvation is a personal relationship with the Savior.

[mike182d]

When jesus says this is the rock I will build my churce upon he may have been talking about Peter (translates to small stone)

"Peter" only translates to "small stone" in the Greek. However, Peter wasn't named "Petros." That was Matthews clever attempt at an obvious play on words that seems to have become a liguistic maze for Protestants. Jesus spoke aramaic and Peter's name was changed to "Kepha," which in aramaic doesn't mean "small stone." It literally means "large rock." Evidence of this is in the Epistles of St. Paul. In the original Greek text of Paul's epistles, he refers to Peter as "Kephas," which is the Greek transliteration of "Kepha." No one throughout the New Testament calls him "Petros."