On May 13, 5:50 pm, "Mistylein" <yardhol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 13, 4:53 pm, "Mistylein" <yardhol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Sorry you took it out of context.
> >> Here it is in context,
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> >> Matt 16:
> >> 17Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon
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> son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you>> by man, but by my
Father in heaven. 18And
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> I tell you that you are Peter,[a] and on this>> rock I will build my
church, and the gates of
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> Hades[b] will not overcome it.[c] 19I will>> give you the keys of the
kingdom of heaven;
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> whatever you bind on earth will be[d] bound>> in heaven, and whatever
you loose on earth
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> will be[e] loosed in heaven."
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> >> (a) Peter means rock.
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> >> But it is not on peter that Christ is building His Church upon but on
the
> >> Rock.
> >> The Rock hard truth.
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> >> The wize man builds his house upon the rock
> >> The Foolish man builds house upon the sand.
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> >> Now can you explain what the rock here is
> >> and what the sand here is?
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> > You lost me, there. The passage makes no reference to sand nor the
> > wize man nor hard truth.
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> > Please explain.
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> Jesus is the Rock ...
But Jesus just renames Simon to be the rock [Peter] to build His
church. Doesn't quite explain that Jesus Himself is the Rock.
> ... and all Truth is based on Him not peter.
> Peter told Jesus the very truth that no one told him
But the writer as just told us " Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For
flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in
heaven".
> and it is that truth that peter told that Jesus was to build
> his Church upon.
Upon what?
> Every one that excepts Jesus is excepting the Son of God
> and when we become baptised in His name we become
> members of the Bride of the lamb.
How does that passage explain that?
> Peter was rock also but he was a hard headed Rock.
> Jesus had to check him at different times to correct him
> because of his hard headedness.
This is the first time I've heard anyone speak of rock=hard-headedness
that had to be corrected. Is this what the writer intended to convey?
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> M,
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