Christians?

Question

I have a question about the start of the Church. I know it was established by Jesus, but Catholics believe that Peter was to lead the church and have succesors to follow hime(the Pope) what is the belief for Christians. What was Peters role in the eyes of christians?

No Catholicism is the original form of Christianity...Both religions have many different practices and traditions..Please do not tell me they are the same when i have been researching them they are seperate denominations...thanks for your imput though : )

Answer 1

The rock upon which Jesus established his church is the revelation that he is the Christ. Peter was given the keys to the kingdom for the use of all believers throughout the ministry of Jesus Christ on earth, which began with his resurrection and the sending of the Holy Spirit to indwell them that believe. Peter is not the head of the Roman church because he is a member of the body of Christ, and Christ is the head of his own body. There is only one true church of the One True and Living God. Any claim to being a supposed division or denomination of the body of Christ is a claim to being a division of something which cannot be divided.

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Jesus began his ministry on earth through the church when he sent the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.

Answer 2

The debate arises from Matthew 16. Jesus asked the disciples who they thought he was. Peter replied that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. To which Jesus replied, "on this rock I will build my church".

Catholics believe that the rock was Peter, thus the origin of the popehood.

Protestants believe that the rock Jesus was referring to was Peter's words. That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

In the eyes of Protestants Peter was a disciple and an apostle.

Answer 3

The first pope was bishop Thomas, an eastern orthodox bishop, in 872 AD. The original holy and catholic apostolic church was the eastern orthodox or present day Greek Orthodox. They compiled stuff they made the bible from. The Roman catholic church did not start until 872 AD. which is why the pope is called the bishop of rome since he was originally an eastern orhtodix bishop deciding that he could make more money on his own making his own religion.

Answer 4

Christians believe that the foundation of the church is Christ. I also believe that Peter probably did establish a church or two but he did not establish the church in Rome, or at least it seems VERY unlikely. There were others who established churches like Paul, Timothy, Apollos, etc all mentioned in the BIble.

Answer 5

well, here's a scripture to start off my answer:

Matthew 16:17-19 (New International Version)

17Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be[d] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

the name Peter means Rock, and many christians believe that Peter was charged with starting the church.

some also believe that as Paul was charged with testifying the Gospels to the Gentiles, Peter was charged with testifying the Gospels to the Jews.

It's seems that through Peter and Paul as leaders and with all the Disciples, the Gospel would be brought to the 4 corners of the Earth.

Answer 6

Well, Jesus is the ultimate foundation for what we believe. And Jesus told Peter, "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not overcome it." Peter's real name is Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (that means "rock").

So, I think it's safe to say that Jesus left the church in Peter's hands when He left.

Answer 7

the revelation to Peter of who Jesus is (the Christ, the Son of the living God) is the rock on which the Church is built. He was one of the 12 disciples & a leader of the early Church.

Answer 8

An apostle, a disciple of Christ.
Christ also did not start the church, he signaled a time of change, and made the name of Christian come about, but moses and Adam and Abraham and more all followed the doctrine that was given them at their time, and prophocied that Christ would come.

Peter was a good man, and a follower of Christ, as to after, I could say one or another and one would contadict what was said. Many people have many veiws and are convinced (I am as well, though I try to be ..um...open about it) they are correct, or at least that thier church is.

I belive he continued to preach until he was killed some years later by those who ..disagred with him. after all the apostles wree killed chistianity was 'underground' for some time, until several years later, many years, Christianity, or what was managed to be passed down, though distorted, came to a man by the name of Constintien (spelling, sorry) a powerful ruler. He asked his wise men to find out what God was like, he asked for a discription, as none colld really tell him. The went out to a place called Nasserein? (again, spelling) and came back after a few weeks time and said that God and the holy ghost, and Jeasus were all one, sort of, but close enough so they are. (My understanding of it) Constentein became, I believe, the first Pope, then was a long line of Popes and at one point later on, more then one, each saying he was the true pope, and they warred between them to proove who was, I don't have the names of those popes, or the victor, later a Pope by..dang, forgot his name, but he needed cash to fuel his kingdom (he was a king, pope, ruler, all in one) and supposedly some wars, he developed the sale of indulgences, in short you could could pay to have your sin taken away, according to him. Got him what he needed, cash. Much much later Marten Luther, a good loyal preist of the religion, a follower of the pope and the religion, was puzzled aboutthe 'sale of indulgences' as it was not mentioned in the bible at all, that he could find, so he came up with a list of questions and, as many know, nailed them to the door of a church, after a few weeks it caused a large stir, he wanted answers, not to hurt the church, but to know. they didn't answer and excamunicated him, he ran for his life shortly thereafter, went into hiding, a number of people (wealthy ones I believe) asked him to head up a church, he said, for a good while, no, he loved the church that he had been chased from, and was loyal to it, but after he was in danger of death he agreed and started the Luthern church (later called that, not then, don't know what it was called then) from this eventally many started doing simmiler things (I think he has a point, but is not quite right, poof new church that is not either of the others I think the angelican church origanated here..and one other) anyhow the church of england also popped up about now when Henery the VIII was told he couldn't get a divorce..so he split from that church and made another one where he COULD divorce, and did so. Eventually the church of england chased out several churches to the new land (well, they ran more like, there were slaughterings x| they sailed to america ) and landed and founded Bosten, in America, I believe (a town) the puritans were not very lenient, but said if you want to belive anything diffrent then us, fine, but go make your own town. several towns were made in america.

The rest is american history, you know the bit, fight, we won a war some how ;) and then once again we did a few years later (though the white house was shelled to the ground..pain eh?) and then america was a religously free country. anyhow, that covered a bit more then you asked..but...hey, +) I feel I forgot something.....pope...ah yes, the Christians were not amounst those driven from england, pope stayed and so did they mostly I believe, well for that time anyhow. (puritans were a type of it but you can look it up x)

Answer 9

Jesus said to Peter, that he was the rock on which He would build His church, so in this view the Catholic view might be correct.

Answer 10

When Jesus returned to the Father, he did not leave us abandoned as a flock without shepherds. He left us, first and foremost, the Holy Spirit to be with us and guide us. The Spirit speaks to the church both individually, in each one's heart, and collectively, in the teaching authority of the whole church.

He left us, also, the apostles, those who had been close to him and knew him and understood him. Their instruction could be relied upon, and they could help the rest of us understand. The apostles passed on their teaching authority to those whom they designated as their successors, so that we would have an unbroken line of teaching authority going back through the generations to the original apostles.

Peter was the foremost of the apostles, designated by Jesus as the shepherd of the flock. It was Peter to whom Jesus said, "Feed my sheep". The first generation of Christians put their problems of interpretation to Peter. He relied upon the guidance of the Spirit to render decisions on such matters as whether the Spirit might descend upon Gentiles, and whether Gentile converts needed to observe Jewish circumcision and dietary laws. Jesus would never leave his children orphans, or his flock unshepherded, and Peter was given that responsibility.

As the apostles in general passed on their teaching authority to successors, so Peter passed on his role as shepherd to successors. The role of shepherd is not meant to be one of "lording it over people" in worldly power. The shepherd of the church is meant to imitate Jesus, to be the good shepherd who is servant to all and lays down his life for the flock.