Thanks people for taking the time to view it. I have watched a couple more of his videos but i am not an expert on the Bible even though i do try to read it at times. He does seem to put up some convincing arguments which worries me.
Peter was not the 'Rock'..........But, Peter means 'Rock!'............I often thought that could Jesus have been saying that he was going to build his church upon 'A strong faith' such as Peters? The Rock?
At least two Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church - John Chrysostom and Augustine - agree with your view that the Lord was referring to Peter's confession of faith and not Peter himself as what He was going to build his Church on. See Chrysostom's
Homily 54 on Matthew and Augustine's
Homily 10 on the First Epistle of John.
About Jesus saying that we shouldn't call anyone 'Father' but we do with the Pope and priests
Ahem:
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
(1 Corinthians 4:14–16)
He might also have considered
Honor your father and mother (Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:2). Should one honor one's father and mother, but not call them father and mother? As in
‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son’ (Luke 15:21)?
I believe the consensus of the Church Fathers regarding Matthew 23:9 was that we should acknowledge who is our Father in the highest sense (see, e.g., Chrysostom's Homily 72 on Matthew) over our earthly fathers, whether biological or spiritual.
About Mary having other children, they are named!
Not even Luther or Calvin maintained that the Virgin had other children with Joseph.
The views of the Church Fathers are very clear. If one chooses to depart from the teaching of the early Church, that is certainly their prerogative. The ever-virginity of the Virgin Mary was vigorously defended by St. Jerome against Helvidius in
The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary. Jerome held that those identified as "brothers and sisters" were, in fact, cousins. St. Epiphanius of Salamis held the view that the brothers and sisters were children of Joseph's from a previous marriage, which is the traditional view within Eastern Orthodoxy.
In any case, denial of the perpetual Virginity of Mary is a modern innovation which not even found in the early Reformation, let alone the early Church.
Other things too like what the Latin meant on the Popes 'hat' (Wrong name i know, sorry) and how it adds to 666
Was every child born on June 6, 2006, the antichrist?
About no evidence at all that Peter went to Rome!
Tertullian and Eusebius both provide accounts of Peter's martyrdom in Rome, so he was there at least for that event.
What might be disputed is whether Peter was the first bishop of Rome. The
Apostolic Constitutions and Eusebius state that Linus was the first bishop of Rome, and Irenaeus states that the Apostles "committed into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate." On the other hand, Tertullian, Jerome, and John Chrysostom seem to state that Peter was the first bishop.