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Your house is destined for destruction - the little horn power will be taken away at the brightness of his coming.1. I didn't "ask" anything. I quoted your own Christian history.
2. The Church came "into being" in NT times (Matthew 16:18, 18:17 1 Timothy 3:15). I, Marymog, found that Church that Jesus started. You are still searching for it and you deny it.
3. I quoted the earliest records Christianity has of Peter being in Rome. I accept Christian history. You and your ilk deny Christian history to your own demise.
4. Constantine was emperor from 306-337 so your 250AD is wrong...A simple mistake on your part of which I understand.
5. YOUR 20th century Protestant men have taught you that Peter was not called "rock". Historically Christianity has always taught that Peter was the rock that Jesus built The Church upon: Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: ..... 18 I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
Clement of Alexandria
“[T]he blessed Peter, the chosen, the preeminent, the first among the disciples, for whom alone with himself the Savior paid the tribute [Matt. 17:27], quickly grasped and understood their meaning. And what does he say? ‘Behold, we have left all and have followed you’ [Matt. 19:27; Mark 10:28]” (Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 21:3–5 [A.D. 200]).
Tertullian
“For though you think that heaven is still shut up, remember that the Lord left the keys of it to Peter here, and through him to the Church, which keys everyone will carry with him if he has been questioned and made a confession [of faith]” (Antidote Against the Scorpion 10 [A.D. 211]). “[T]he Lord said to Peter, ‘On this rock I will build my Church, I have given you the keys of the kingdom of heaven [and] whatever you shall have bound or loosed on earth will be bound or loosed in heaven’ [Matt. 16:18–19]. . . . Upon you, he says, I will build my Church; and I will give to you the keys, not to the Church” (Modesty 21:9–10 [A.D. 220]).
I could quote MANY Protestant theologians that say that Peter was The Rock upon which Jesus built his Church......Just like Scripture says. But since you deny your own Christian History and accept the teachings of your 20th Century Protestant men there is nothing I can say that will convince you and your teachers are wrong about your own Christian History and don't know how to read very basic Scripture!
With that said I wish you well in your 20th Century Christianity. I and my ilk will adhere to the NT and the teachings of men who lived closest to the times of Christ.....not the men who live in the 20th century.
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