Peter means rock. Cephas means rock.
Peter the Rock
You will always disagree as the truth hurts what you believe my friend.
You can’t spin it, no matter how hard you try.
The language God picked to write the New Testament in, clearly and unequivocally says the church is built on Petra, while Peter is Petros.
Let’s expose the constant litany of revisionist history perpetrated by the RCC.
The false history is that Jesus gave Peter the preeminence over all the apostles, that Jesus made Peter the head of the church and built the church on him, that Peter was the first pope, and that every subsequent pope holds the seat of Peter, via apostolic succession.
This is false, from A to Z - and all that’s needed to disprove the above claims, is the Bible.
Jesus told the apostles that none of them would be above the others - he was not given preeminence:
Mat 20:25 But Jesus called them unto him,and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
Mat 20:26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mat 20:27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Peter didn’t think he was anything but a fellow elder:
1Pe 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am ALSO an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Jesus did not tell Peter that the church would be built on him:
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Jesus spoke of two different rocks: Peter is Petros in the Greek - small rock - and the rock the church is built on is Petra - bedrock.
In the Greek Jesus said: thou art PETROS, and upon this PETRA I will build my church.
The church isn’t built on Peter, or on any individual person, other than Jesus.
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Built on the foundation of apostles, plural, and prophets, plural - not on Peter alone.
In Matthew 16:19 Jesus gives Peter keys (authority) and the power to bind and loose - but 2 chapters later, when He met the other apostles, Jesus gives the same power of binding and loosing to them, too ( Matthew 18:18 - so Peter has no special authority beyond what the 12 shared.
Peter was not a Bishop, or Pope in the Roman church - ever.
Linus was the first bishop/pope of the Roman church, according to the Orthodox Church.
Peter, the apostle to the Jews, is found in the NT in the Jerusalem church, the Jewish Christian church - not in the gentile Roman church.
That’s why Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, wrote the book of Romans, and not Peter.
Paul calls those in the Roman church, gentiles.
Rom 1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among OTHER Gentiles.
Scripture says Paul is the apostle to the gentiles, Peter to the Jews (circumcision), so Peter would not be the head of a gentile Roman sect - and wasn’t.
Gal 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospelof the circumcision wasunto Peter;
Gal 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles
And when Paul visited Peter 3 years after his conversion on Damascus road, he had to go to Jerusalem, where Peter and the Jewish Christian church was:
Gal 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Peter wasn’t in Rome being a pope.
Peter was part of the Jewish Jerusalem church.
