[Salvation]

Peter was the First Pope. Or this that not in your history book?

[kosciusko51]

I see nothing in the Bible that suggests that there is perpetual seat in Rome, and the church that Rome separated from in 1054 did not see the Roman bishop as Pontifix Maximus either.

[ealgeone]

Not based on the Council at Jersusalem. Looks like James, the brother of Jesus, was running the meeting.

It was also James' final decision that was used.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Peter was the First Pope. Or this that not in your history book?”

Not even in Scripture.

Nor has the chain been unbroken.

[imardmd1]

Peter was the First Pope. He was?

Or this that not in your history book?

Not in mine, neither in the New Testament text received by all early Christians and compiled by the RCC priest Desiderius Erasmus, nor in my Crown-Authorized English Version that is based on Erasmus' text.

How about supplying the verse(s)from the Greek New Testament that have a "pope" in them. And please, please do not try to pass off Jesus' words to Simon bar Jona in Matthew 16:18 as your excuse. That did not even fly with the patristics, and most certainly Peter's fellow disciple/apostles would not have said so.

[metmom]

Peter was the First Pope. Or this that not in your history book?

Can you show us where in Scripture that the word *pope* shows up?