You say “Bull!”
You disprove it.
Hoss
Well, no it doesn’t work like that.
I’m not moving from proving my source to disproving yours.
The simple fact is you guys didn’t find the need for this shared for 1600 years.
As for more proof for my case, my source again cites a Protestant source:
One of the most respected and referenced Greek dictionaries among Evangelicals is Gerhard Kittel’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. In a most candid statement about Matthew 16:18, Dr. Oscar Cullman, a contributing editor to this work, writes:
The obvious pun which has made its way into the Greek text . . . suggests a material identity between petra and Petros . . . as it is impossible to differentiate strictly between the two words. . . .
Petros himself is this petra, not just his faith or his confession. . . .
The idea of the Reformers that he is referring to the faith of Peter is quite inconceivable. . . .
For there is no reference here to the faith of Peter. Rather, the parallelism of “thou art Rock” and “on this rock I will build” shows that the second rock can only be the same as the first. It is thus evident that Jesus is referring to Peter, to whom he has given the name Rock. . . .
To this extent Roman Catholic exegesis is right and all Protestant attempts to evade this interpretation are to be rejected.