And it isn't Peter.
Also, here, Paul identifies who petra is, and that is 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 (petra) that followed them, and the Rock (petra) was Christ.
It simply cannot get any plainer.
....the Rock (petra) was Christ.
Paul tells us who *petra* is.
And it isn’t Peter.
It simply cannot get any plainer.
-————————————————————————————And Paul also calls Peter (Cephas)
Jesus called Peter (Cephas ) John 1:42.
It depends on what we want to believe, now do I want to believe Cephas as a stone or a rock?
Well if I believe Cephas is a rock it might make the Catholic smile.
If I believe Cephas is only a stone it may make the protestant smile.
I can`t stand smiling smug Christians, and you do notice I did say Christians whether Catholic or protestant, I have no doubt you could find a few in either sect.
Maybe it can not get any plainer to some one who knows it all but I do not know, it is not that plain at all.