RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm by Alex K.)
(April 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm)professor Wrote: The answer is simple if you read Greek.Well, it's a pun, and he is forced to use the two slightly different words for the pun to work. He has to use the similar word for a big rock in the second instance, or otherwise the metaphor is broken. Alas, we can only hope that the Greek text contains a faithful rendition of the subtleties from the original aramaic. But why should we doubt that.
Jesus said to Pete: "...you are Petros ( masculine, a large piece of rock) and upon this Petra
( feminine, a huge rock like Gibraltar), I will build My church... Two different words are used.
Pete had just stated that Jesus is the Christ.
Upon that information /statement Jesus would build His church.
Christianity predates Catholicism.
Catholicism is a subversion of Christianity.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
