Oh good grief. The catholic claim to Petrine authority has been shown to be wrong so many times on this board it is sad catholics continue to cling to this....and I mean cling to it.
And as we can see lately that "petrine authority" is taking them into the abyss.
Discredited on this thread: Perhaps in your mind. Why don’t you go ask the several leading Protestant, Lutheran, and Evangelical theologians, professors, and pastors who after a lifetime of research and teaching converted to Catholicism?
The so-called “Bible” Christian are an exotic species that several articles have been written about them essentially exposing these folks as low-IQ snake handlers. This was all spawned by the curse of the reformation. Some serious reading might help.
Go read Hillaire Belloc’s “The Great Heresies.”
The Bible was put together by the early Church fathers. They got their authority not out of thin air but from the apostolic tradition handed to Peter and his successors. They included some parts of the Judaic texts but not all. After decades of research by the use of Petrine authority we have the definitive Bible.
Catholics have a Catechism and a Credo for all times and for all ages. Not the silly cracking opening of the pages of the Bible and have Billy Graham or Rev. Schuller or Joe Osteen spout their vapid “preaching” or the lunacy of Rev. Wright, the Moonies, Mormons, or some of the corner street Foursquare church pastors.
Why go far: we have mainline Protestant denominations now “ordaining” married gay and lesbian pastors. What a joke!
What all the heretics have in common is the denial of Petrine authority.
For a brief history of the Apostolic Tradition
Try reading
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/apostolic-tradition