Question about Mat 16:13-20?

Question

13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed[a] in heaven.”
20 Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.

I know many RC think this means Peter is the rock. But is he?

This is from the New King James

Answer 1

Jesus spoke of what the Spirit revealed to Peter..."You are the Christ". That is the Rock of Whom Jesus speaks - Himself.

The name Peter is said to mean rock, but more accurately, a small rock, or a small rock of a larger rock.

The R.C.'s are quite mistaken with this, as with several of their doctrines. Many of these doctrines are born from out of context scripture, circular reasoning and the mix of old pagan mixing which went on during Constantine's reign.

Answer 2

Jesus as the Son of God is the statement Jesus confirmed, and Jesus calls Himself the Rock. That is evident here and in Corinthians as well.

God is the Rock throughout the Old Testament as well. Peter wasn't even created yet.

Also the binding and loosing is that the apostles (Paul, Peter, John, etc) will be used of God to write the New Testament. It confirms sola scriptura. Now the binding and loosing rules are over, because the Bible is complete.

Answer 3

No Peter is not the rock, Jesus was talking about His Self, Peter is the vision of the foundation of the rock he was to continue to build the church of God along with the other disciple and continue with God work. No one is Holy like the lord, for there is none beside you Nor is there any Rock like Our God,(1 Samuel 2&2) Here are more words talking about , the Rock, Jesus Christ, But the Lord has been my defence, And my God the Rock of my refuge. (Psalm 94&22) Because you have forgotten the God of yur salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants and set out foreign seedlings, Isaiah(17&11)be bless!

Answer 4

No. It was the "belief" Peter had in Jesus as the Christ that the church is built on.
The base foundation for the church today is "belief" that Jesus is who the Bible say He is.
Peter had nothing to do with the RCC. Peter was long dead by 400 years or more before the first idea of anything remotely like the RCC.

Answer 5

I think it means the church is built on the rock of revelation that God gave Peter. Which was God's revelation in the first place. So no I don't think Peter is the rock the word of God and the revelation Peter has is the actual rock. And we can all have that revelation if we want, desire, and seek it.

Answer 6

NO; Jesus was pointing to Himself when He said "Upon this Rock I will build the Church.."....

Gads, Peter himself calls Jesus the 'Chief Corner STONE' in 1 Peter 2:6

Answer 7

Actually that's Mat 7:21.. but to look at it as a whole lets look at Matt 7:15-21. The good fruit that our life should be producing is "love, joy, peace, patience,kindness, goodness,faithfulness, gentleness and self control"(GAL 5:22-23) in the throes of an addiction however,we are without peace and totally out of control. If we take an honest moral inventory, we will admit that the fruits of our life are not those that God intended for us. Once we admit our failures, we can enter into recovery(from our addictions and destructive behaviors) and work to produce the fruit that God wants for us.

Answer 8

First off...maybe you shouldn't rely on King James' translation to decypher this "deeper meaning".... There is a fabulous book on this subject called "Misquoting Jesus".

But so you know, the name "peter" derives from a word that means "rock".

I found this somewhere on the net:

The boy's name Peter \p(e)-ter\ is pronounced PEE-ter. It is of Greek origin, and its meaning is "rock". Variant of Petros. Biblical: one of the 12 apostles, Peter the fisherman has an impulsive nature as well as rocklike faith. Jesus said of him, "Upon this Rock I will build my church". In Catholic tradition, the first pope.

Answer 9

No. In fact Paul said at Ephesians 2:20: "“You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone.”

In addition, Peter himself said at Acts 4:8-11: “Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, addressed them, ‘Rulers of the people, and elders! . . . it was by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the one you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this name and by no other that this man is able to stand up perfectly healthy, here in your presence, today. This is the stone rejected by you the builders, but which has proved to be the keystone [“cornerstone,” NAB].’”

The original apostles didn't believe Peter was "the rock" Jesus spoke of, but that it was Jesus himself. The idea of apostolic succession is propogated by the Catholic Church in order to say that the Pope has higher authority than the scriptures and he can order things contrary to them. This is clearly a fallacy.

Answer 10

I'm no CAtholic, but i believe Peter was the rock. If you look at the Aramaic that Jesus actually spoke, it says Cepha and not Petros as in the greek. So its not a play on words as protestants believe. Peter really had the authority.

But where i disagree with CAtholics is when they say this authority is passed on to future leadership. There is no such thing. When the apostles died, all their authority and ministry perished with them. It was never to be replicated. They had the power to forgive sins. Pope doesnt have it.