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To: NYer; CynicalBear
CB:Promoting the supposition that Matthew wrote the gospel in Hebrew but there is no documented proof is tantamount to a lack of faith in God’s ability to preserve His word “for all generations” as He promised.

Sal: But it has been preserved, after being translated into Greek and Latin, by Catholics.

So that means that it was the CATHOLIC CHURCH which used the words *petra* and *Petros* in Matthew there.

Making the word for *rock* mean small stone in one case and bedrock in another.

And then it was the CATHOLIC CHURCH which penned this, too, right?

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.

191 posted on 02/13/2015 6:32:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom; NYer
>>So that means that it was the CATHOLIC CHURCH which used the words *petra* and *Petros* in Matthew there.<<

And then believe that the Catholic Church which they claim has unbroken lineage of the preservation of scripture lost the originals. And to top that all off believe they could consistently over millennium maintain an unchanging oral teaching. They can save dead bones but not God's original word.

197 posted on 02/13/2015 7:00:40 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: metmom
So that means that it was the CATHOLIC CHURCH which used the words *petra* and *Petros* in Matthew there.

As Catholics were responsible for writing the New Testament (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit), the Catholic Church doesn't "interpret" the Bible. We explain it. You should invest some time in learning more about the origins of the Bible. The original writings from the Apostles themselves (the autographs) no longer exist. This is due partly to the perishable material (papyrus) used by the writers, and partly to the fact that the Roman emperors decreed the destruction of the sacred books of the Christians (Edict of Diocletian, A.D. 303). Before translating the Bible into Latin, St. Jerome had already translated into more common languages enough books to fill a library. (Saint Jerome, Maisie Ward, Sheed & Ward; A Companion to Scripture Studies, Steinmuller.)

214 posted on 02/13/2015 1:58:41 PM PST by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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