Posted on 04/28/2015 8:36:56 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Well, it happened, because I am not what I’d consider a Protestant in the way it is used today, nor do I believe that the other born again posters who post here are.
Peter rock
Matthew 16:18 - http://bible.cc/matthew/16-18.htm
Jesus said that Peter was *petros*(masculine) and that on this *petra*(feminine) He would build His church.
Greek: 4074 Pétros (a masculine noun) properly, a stone (pebble), such as a small rock found along a pathway. 4074 /Pétros (small stone) then stands in contrast to 4073 /pétra (cliff, boulder, Abbott-Smith).
4074 (Pétros) is an isolated rock and 4073 (pétra) is a cliff (TDNT, 3, 100). 4074 (Pétros) always means a stone . . . such as a man may throw, . . . versus 4073 (pétra), a projecting rock, cliff (S. Zodhiates, Dict).
4073 pétra (a feminine noun) a mass of connected rock, which is distinct from 4074 (Pétros) which is a detached stone or boulder (A-S). 4073 (pétra) is a solid or native rock, rising up through the earth (Souter) a huge mass of rock (a boulder), such as a projecting cliff.
4073 (petra) is a projecting rock, cliff (feminine noun) . . . 4074 (petros, the masculine form) however is a stone . . . such as a man might throw (S. Zodhiates, Dict).
Its also a strange way to word the sentence that He would call Peter a rock and say that on this I will build my church instead of *on you* as would be grammatically correct in talking to a person.
There is no support from the original Greek that Peter was to be the rock on which Jesus said he would build His church. The nouns are not the same, one being masculine and the other being feminine. They denote different objects.
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.
http://biblehub.com/text/romans/9-33.htm
Romans 9:30-33 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written,Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock (petra) of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
http://biblehub.com/text/1_peter/2-8.htm
1 Peter 2:1-8 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,
and
A stone of stumbling, and a rock (petra) of offense.
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
All occurrences of *petra* in the Greek.
The church kicked them out.
The RCC ex-communicated Luther and at Trent, pronounced all kinds of anathemas against those who disagree with it.
What doctrines do ALL Protestants agree on?
dear desertrhino,
There was a time in my employment history, where within the same organization, I was receiving phone calls from local law enforcement, concerning the bounced checks, written by the wife of the OTHER Terry L Smith, also within that organization!!!
(We had a wall-to-wall counseling session.)
The phone calls stopped.
I could be wrong but I believe 1 Cor was written after the letter to the Romans.
At any rate its traditional knowledge that records both Sts Peter and Paul established the Church in Rome, and indeed the two worked together to establish the Church Universal in all the locations they visited either physically together or apart.
So this passage from the first letter to the Corinthians is not all that surprising nor is it harmful to Catholic dogma for the reasons described above and also for the fact that the direct answer to your direct question is: No, he was not given the keys as St Peter was.
This fact actually bolsters the Catholic claim instead of injuring it. No man but St. Peter was given the keys, keys which again had a powerful symbolic meaning (cf Is 22:21) that most certainly St Peter understood.
A king or his chosen steward would have many who would help build the kingdom,(so the fact that St Paul helped build the early church is irrelevant as far as a question of authority goes) but only the king or his chosen steward would have the authority to rule over the kingdom.
dear reset,
“My remarks were directed at your crappy personal attack towards another FReeper of good standing.”
In the world of individual commentaries, there is no such thing as a ‘sheepdog’.
The individual, that YOU feel was impugned, should be ADULT enough, to write their own replies ... unless you theoretically are either on their payroll, or .... infused upon THAT person’s SIX!!
There is no Constitutional legality against being offended!!!
With all due respect you don’t seem to understand the point being made here. You can claim all you want that any commentary you (or others) give after citing Scripture is “just Scripture) but it’s not. It’s your opinion OF Scripture and therefore:
It (your opinion) is infallible itself if YOU are infallible or...
It (your opinion) is NOT infallible UNLESS you are given, by the Holy Spirit, the charism of infallibility.
Again, put another way, unless you literally only post Scripture and NOTHING else, no commentary or conclusion by you or others, then you can’t claim “I’m only giving Scripture”. You’re not. You’re giving your INTERPRETATION of Scripture which is, itself, either fallible or infallible as described above.
We never get answers to those questions. They sure do put a lot of faith in fallible men telling stories over thousands of years.
When confronted with scripture you simply run off?
Jesus called Peter and unstable movable rock. He then distinctly said the ekklesia was to be built on unmovable bedrock rather than on that moveable unstable rock. And Peter surely did prove he was a movable unstable rock when he denied Christ three times.
By that analysis you must think you are infallible.
So you have interpreted scripture and have determined what the meaning is? Was that an infallible interpretation? >>If you dont hear from me, I am poraying for you and the rest of the lost.<<
Did you use your infallibility to determine that I am lost?
Pleas show where I have interpreted scripture.
How so?
Faith alone, Christ alone ,scripture alone, to the glory of God alone
“Pleas show where I have interpreted scripture.”
This post is an excellent example of you interpreting Scripture. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3284198/posts?page=27#27
You’ll note in that post that you not only posted Scripture but you also wrote what you think those passages say. That’s the definition of “interpretation.”
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