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"While there is no evidence that Simon Peter was in Rome, other than Eusebius and Jerome's claim magically pulled out of thin air, there is substantial credible written evidence that Simon Magus had a major impact on Rome's subsequent spiritual development."
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I have never given it a lot of thought one way or the other, why does it matter whether Peter was the founder, or Bishop, of the Roman Church? Is it tied to the idea that they have supreme leader, who was above all other Apostles?

[Uncle Chip]

"I have never given it a lot of thought one way or the other, why does it matter whether Peter was the founder, or Bishop, of the Roman Church? Is it tied to the idea that they have supreme leader, who was above all other Apostles?"

It is a matter of credibility. Is the legend of the Roman Church true or is Scripture? Too many Protestants have just accepted the fact of a 25 year Petrine Bishopric in Rome as fact, when Scripture and honest Patriarchs and honest Catholic scholars testify against it.

The question is why do Protestant scholars blindly accept this myth rather than believe the truth of the Scriptures on this matter. Where the Scriptures are silent on a matter, scholars should be. But when Peter writes an epistle from Babylon, as late as 65 AD, why do believers in Sola Scriptura so readily spiritualize Babylon away and say that he really meant Rome. What else are believers in Sola Scriptura spiritualizing away?

[Quix]

I have never given it a lot of thought one way or the other, why does it matter whether Peter was the founder, or Bishop, of the Roman Church? Is it tied to the idea that they have supreme leader, who was above all other Apostles?

Gets to be the issue of AUTHORITY, POWER, CONTROL over all Christendom . . . EXTRAPOLATED, shoehorned into existence from that vague metaphorical passage about Peter. Then, they have to jury-rig and mangle history to support all THAT! Gets to be a monstrous house of cards encrusted with lots of fossilized junk purporting to be parading about in robes of righteousness that smell much the opposite. But that's normal for instutitions of man Roman AND Protestant.