[ronnietherocket3]

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.

[CynicalBear]

>>Peter is a man; it would be very odd to give him a feminine name.<<

Peter was not given a feminine name. Jesus called him Petros which is male. Jesus said the "church" would be built on petra which is feminine. It's very odd that Catholics would try to make Peter feminine by claiming it is he who the "church" is built on.

[editor-surveyor]

No part of God’s word was originally written in any language but Hebrew (Daniel ch 4 excepted).

The Greek MS themselves prove that they are clumsy translations.

Proof of this fact has been posted here many times.

[metmom]

Peter is a man; it would be very odd to give him a feminine name.

That's correct. That is why *Petros* is Peter's name, and *petra* is the rock on which the church is being built, and Paul in 1 Corinthians, clearly identifies *petra* as Jesus Christ. This link takes you to the Greek.

http://biblehub.com/text/1_corinthians/10-4.htm

1 Corinthians 10:1-4 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.