Posted on 11/06/2011 6:11:04 AM PST by pastorbillrandles
Nah, if you can’t answer the question just say so. Obfuscation is a nice game but goes no where.
Nice try, but Jesus never said the Bible contained everything he wanted us to know. In fact, the Bible itself tells us that - "This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true. Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." John 21:24-25
The basic logic of your question is flawed. The Church is the foundation of truth. The Bible says that.
The Bible does not say that the Bible is the foundation of Truth.
In "on this rock," "rock" is in the dative case because it is the object of the preposition epi which takes the dative. Petros is in the nominative because it agrees with the second person singular pronoun which is in the nominative.
In verses 17 to 19 there are repeated second person singular pronouns (mostly in the dative form soi) along with two second-person singular verb forms in verse 19, and a singular form of the word for "blessed" (makarios) in verse 17 (along with a second-person singular verb).
The natural way to read the passage is that Jesus is addressing Peter individually.
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