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To: NYer; metmom
>>What Jesus said to Simon in Matthew 16:18 was this: ‘You are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my Church.<<

The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the New Testament in Greek not Aramaic. The words used in Matthew 16:18 are NOT Kepha and kepha. The words used in the only manuscripts available are Petros and petra. Each has a distinctly different meaning.

From Stong's:

4074 Pétros (a masculine noun) – properly, a stone (pebble), such as a small rock found along a pathway.

4073 pétra (a feminine noun) – "a mass of connected rock," which is distinct from 4074 (Pétros) which is "a detached stone or boulder" (A-S). 4073 (pétra) is a "solid or native rock, rising up through the earth" (Souter) – a huge mass of rock (a boulder), such as a projecting cliff.

>>What Jesus said to Simon in Matthew 16:18 was this: ‘You are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my Church.<<

Not according to what the Holy Spirit had written.

What metmom posted was correct. Until you can prove that the Holy Spirit originally had Mathew written in Aramaic your claim is totally in error.

837 posted on 09/29/2014 6:44:48 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear
The words used in the only manuscripts available are Petros and petra.
855 posted on 09/29/2014 8:28:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CynicalBear
The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the New Testament in Greek not Aramaic. The words used in Matthew 16:18 are NOT Kepha and kepha. The words used in the only manuscripts available are Petros and petra. Each has a distinctly different meaning.

Peter is a man; it would be very odd to give him a feminine name.
905 posted on 09/29/2014 3:05:59 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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