Thou Art Peter....

One of the more outlandish errors protestants are fond of, is to say that the Lord didn't really mean what He clearly meant when He told Saint Peter He was founding His Church on him: "Thou art Peter, and upon this "rock" I found My Church." Or that He summarily revoked this privilege shortly afterwards when He told Peter, "Get thee behind me, Satan."

A funny guy, that Jesus... couldn't seem to get His act together. Fortunately, we have countless protestant denominations to tell us what He really meant. And if they cannot agree on this, or anything else, well no biggee - all that really matters is that you're "born again"... and aren't a Catholic.

It's all very strange.

For the record, the problem with Catholicism isn't Catholicism, it's Catholics. Or rather, all the bad Catholics - the mothers of whom are forever pregnant. On the other hand, the problem with protestantism IS protestantism. Even though quite a few protestants, in spite of their heresies, by some miracle remain decent folks.

Aristotle made a sharp observation: “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” We can see this playing out before our eyes in protestantism: constant schisming, prot priestesses, bishopettes, popesses. "Christian Zionism", prot "churches" that are here today, gone tomorrow. Reversing theological course from one decade to the next. Prots who claim that Jesus was merely a good man, not God.... You could go on forever. I suspect that if things continue at the rate they're going, it won't be too long before we're seeing protestant temple prostitutes.

We find ourselves at a place in time where protestant deviations from the truth have become quite pronounced indeed; to a point where whatever one prot church teaches, there are now scores down the road that deny it.

Back to my thesis: in order to deny Catholicism, protestants will twist the clear words of Jesus concerning Him founding His Church on St. Peter into something bizarre: they'll go back to the Greek word for "Peter" and say, "The word Jesus used, in Greek, means a "small pebble", not a "rock". Jesus is the real rock upon which His Church is founded!" Touche'! Case closed.

Except that Jesus was speaking in Aramaiac, not Greek, when he conferred that honorific on Simon bar Jonah; and in Aramaiac he was called Kepha. Which not surprisingly means "rock" - not "small pebble".

Almost as if to say "Nyahh, nyahh!" to prots, Saint Peter is buried directly beneath the main altar of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. A "small pebble" indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_tomb

https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2020/04/what-sits-underneath-st-peters-basilica.html

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