Why did God change Simon's name to Kepha or Cephus (Peter) which means Rock?

Answer 1

Why did Jesus call Peter Satan in three Gospels?

May be because God knew that Peter will take away the Kosher laws which Jesus followed.. to apease the Romans, the law of circumcision which was based on the Covenant with Abraham was removed again to satisfy the Romans. He attacked the monotheistic tradition and accepted the Roman myth of Zeus the father god with Hercules the son god born to the Earth woman Alcmene... and establish that Myth as the truth.

It is clear as day light that Jesus was an observant Jewish man, who followed the kosher laws, who was circumcised, who used to worship the Almighty Lord and was OBEDIENT to the Almighty even against his own will. Clearly showing that he was the ruled and the Lord was the Master!!

Peter put everything Jesus taught on its very head. May be that is why the Lord called him a rock. Rocks are useless. Soil or broken and humbled rock is instrumental in the growth of plants and trees and becomes the foundation of life at many levels.

In contrast a rock is barren. Nothing can grow. It can not even hold water, unless carved and cut. It is useless.

The soil or crushed and humbled rock gives birth to a tree, which gives fruit, a plant can be eaten by animals, and soil becomes the foundation of an entire fruitful system.

I know what YOU are implying. The Rock on which the Church was built.. I just wanted to present another perspective.

That is all. Everything can be seen from more than one direction and angle.

Answer 2

Jesus told Peter, "Upon this ROCK i'll build my church." Essentially, Peter was the first Bishop or central leader over the early Church. The Catholics for this same reason consider him to be their first Pope.

Answer 3

according to one tradition, the source of his name is the hebrew "kopher" because he was a secret agent charged with overturning the christian tendency to imitate jews by introducing non-jewish practices into christianity. others see the name Peter as from the hebrew patur -- exempt as he told the christians they were exempt froom jewish law so that they would be distanced from judaism.