some people say that jesus was talking about himself about the rock
matthew 16:18
matthew 16:18
Hi Lamb, I thought that the spoke of Peter as a stone not a Rock. There has been only one Rock and He is the only acceptable foundation. We are all living stones being built into God's house. Great questionsome people say that jesus was talking about himself about the rock
matthew 16:18
Jesus said that it was his church, but that he was going to "build" it--not found it--on Peter.How could Jesus' Church be built upon any other rock but Him?
Jesus said that it was his church, but that he was going to "build" it--not found it--on Peter.
Jesus designated Peter for the task, and on Pentecost Sunday Peter preached his miraculous sermon to the people gathered from all around the empire resulting in 3000 of them being converted to the new faith. That was the first big membership breakthrough for the church, so Peter was the one on whom the church may be said to have been "built (up)."
Jesus said that it was his church, but that he was going to "build" it--not found it--on Peter.
Jesus designated Peter for the task, and on Pentecost Sunday Peter preached his miraculous sermon to the people gathered from all around the empire resulting in 3000 of them being converted to the new faith. That was the first big membership breakthrough for the church, so Peter was the one on whom the church may be said to have been "built (up)."
Well, "upon this rock" can be a reference to almost anything if taken out of context. It could refer to a person or it could refer to some action or something else.But Jesus was clearly talking about the chief foundation for His church in Matthew chapter 16 upon which the church would be built- not the man, or a man, who would be most instrumental in building up his church upon that foundation stone.
Peter (a name meaning rock) is the one designated by Christ to build his church--which we know he shortly was to do and big time!What are you trying to say here?
Well, "upon this rock" can be a reference to almost anything if taken out of context. It could refer to a person or it could refer to some action or something else.
It appears very much to be the case that Christ is talking to Peter as his go-to man for building up Christ's new church. I agree that he is saying what he does because Peter makes a confession of faith in the Lord just before the key words appear, but it is Peter who does the building on Pentecost as I described before. If not, what building is Peter doing that all the other Apostles were not also doing?
Also, we must note that a few lines later in that passage Christ likens Peter to Satan, saying to get behind him because of his faithlessness. So we cannot make Peter's faith but not Peter himself be the rock even if we didn't think that Peter's name figures in this at all.
Peter (a name meaning rock) is the one designated by Christ to build his church--which we know he shortly was to do and big time!
Although some posters have emphasized Peter's faith as though it can be separated from Peter himself, Peter compromises that affirmation of faith in the very same passage of scripture that we are talking about. Yet Peter goes on famously to build the church up, being the one whose sermon led to 3000 conversions in a single event.