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.
The Rock IS CHRIST.
It takes all manner of Catholics *interpreting* to dismiss that plain and obvious fact and turn the rock into Peter and your long and convoluted post shows that.
So you disagree with the protestant scholars?