I listened to a youtube video by Mike Gendron. My first thought was why does so many people want to discourage any ones faith in Jesus. (I commented: I was going to Mass tomorrow.)
To justify his version of “Church” Gendron reads Matt 16:16-18 to mean that Christ did not refer to Peter as “this rock” on which His Church would be built, but that “this rock” refers to Simon son of Jonah’s recognition of Christ as the Messiah b/c the Lord is described many times as a rock elsewhere in the Bible. But the problem for Gendron’s Matt 16:18 interpretation is that Petras means rock in Greek.
I listened to a youtube video by Mike Gendron. My first thought was why does so many people want to discourage any ones faith in Jesus. (I commented: I was going to Mass tomorrow.)
To justify his version of “Church” Gendron reads Matt 16:16-18 to mean that Christ did not refer to Peter as “this rock” on which His Church would be built, but that “this rock” refers to Simon son of Jonah’s recognition of Christ as the Messiah b/c the Lord is described many times as a rock elsewhere in the Bible. But the problem for Gendron’s Matt 16:18 interpretation is that Petras means rock in Greek.