[CynicalBear]

Oh give it up. Jesus called Peter Cephas which is Aramaic the language that Jesus spoke and means rock. In Greek the word is Petros and in English it is Peter. Wow! Wasn’t that neat? So what? It still doesn’t mean that the church is built upon Peter as the foundation.

Paul made it rather clear.

1 Cor. 3:11 For other foundation no one can lay, but that which has been laid, which is Christ Jesus

I shouldn’t have said “the Father”. God, “and these three are one”, the Rock upon which the church is built.

Neither is the Pope the head of the church.

Eph. 5:23-24 "Let wives be subject to their husbands as to the Lord; because a husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is head of the Church, being himself savior of the body. But just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things."

The church is subject to only one head and that is Christ.

[Titanites]

Jesus called Peter Cephas which is Aramaic the language that Jesus spoke and means rock.

Thank you.

In Greek the word is Petros and in English it is Peter. Wow! Wasn’t that neat?

Yes, it was. Cephas = rock = Peter.

It still doesn’t mean that the church is built upon Peter as the foundation.

I can understand why some take that interpretation of the Scripture:

"And I also say to you that you are Peter [rock - as CynicalBear said above], and on this rock I will build My church"

I shouldn’t have said “the Father”

OK. Thanks.

Neither is the Pope the head of the church.

No, Christ is the head of the Church.

The church is subject to only one head and that is Christ.

Amen.

[Former Fetus]

Jesus called Peter Cephas which is Aramaic the language that Jesus spoke and means rock. In Greek the word is Petros

There is a play upon words here. In the original Greek it is, “You are Petros [a little piece of rock, a pebble], and upon this petra [bedrock] I will build my church.”