****You don’t suppose taking one verse and making Peter the rock of the church contrary to everything else that scripture teaches would be included in that idea would you? How about praying to those who have passed from this life? ****
This just illustrates yet again the absolute void in your understanding of the Church. There is much more than one verse which supports the Church’s teaching on Peter as the head of the earthly Church.
Not only that, one has to ignore that it was God who named Simon, Rock and why God changed the names of certain people in Scripture.
One would also have to ignore the fact that Jesus quoted Scripture and clarified what the Scripture actually meant.
Scripture is God’s Word, Jesus is God the Son, are you saying that Jesus contradicted Himself when He called Peter, Rock?
***Taking everything the writer writes rather than just snippets to find the truth! Who would have ever thought?***
Mere hubris, protestants removed from their Bibles anything they thought supported Catholicism.
Protestantism, the pick and choose method for tickling the ears.
How about scripture teaching that all Christians are a priesthood rather than just some hierarchy?
Like what?