By Stephen K. Ray
Ray, a former Evangelical Protestant and Bible instructor, is going throughout the Scriptures and the 1st 5 centuries of the Church to illustrate that the early Christians had a transparent knowing of the primacy of Peter within the see of Rome. He tackles the cruel matters in an try and reveal how the competition is false impression the Scriptures and background. He makes use of many Protestant students and historians to help the Catholic place. This booklet includes the main entire compilation of Scriptural and Patristic quotations at the primacy of Peter and the Papal place of work of any booklet to be had. It has over 500 footnotes with helping facts from Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and non-Christian professionals.
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Peter may have died, but his office continues, and his successors, as we shall discover shortly, continue to fill his office of royal steward and continue to preserve the sacred deposit of truth entrusted to the Church by the apostles. As we continue working from the base we have established here, we shall see how the earliest Christians, our first brothers and sisters in Christ, understood these biblical passages and the authority of the Church. We will now delve into the later life of Peter, after he escaped Herod’s persecution in Jerusalem, after “he departed, and went into another place” (Acts 12: 17).
12 The Testament of Hezekiah —written c. D. 75-10013 “And now, Hezekiah and Josab my son, these are the days of the consummation of the world; and after it is consummated, Beliar [the Antichrist], a great angel, the king of this world, will descend. He has ruled it since it began and he will descend from his firmament in the form of a man, a king without law, the murderer of his mother [Nero]. ” 14 Ignatius of Antioch (c. D. 35—c. . . Not like Peter and Paul do I issue any order to you.
But he may very well have overestimated his own abilities. He took it on himself to lead wherever he was, speaking often for the other disciples, and even once for Jesus. 19 He preached the first gospel message (Acts 2: 14-40), and, with the assistance of the other apostles, he baptized over three thousand people that day. After exposing their deception, Peter condemned Ananias and Sapphira, who lied to the Holy Spirit and fell dead at the feet of Peter (Acts 5: 1-11). Peter changed the course of the young Church by baptizing Cornelius and his household, the first Gentiles to become Christians.