Kingdom Parables

Claims of Papal Authority:
M. M. NINAN
Papal claim for authority from the Bible is based on a wrong
interpretation of the passage:
Mat. 16:16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to
you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter (
Petrus a small piece of rock), and on this rock (Petra solid rock) I
will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you
the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." 20 Then he
warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.21 From that time on
Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many
things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he
must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. 22 Peter took him aside and
began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"23
Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a
stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of
men."
Evidently Jesus was not going to build his church on a small vacillating
piece of rock but on the faith that he was indeed Christ. At any rate in
the next minute Peter was directly called Satan. Did Jesus build his
Church on Satan?
The first synod of the Church when a decision on gentiles were to be
made, it was done in Jerusalem, not in Rome; and it was James the
brother of Jesus who presided over it even when Peter was present on
that occasion. Though it is possible that Peter visited Rome, there are no
known valid documentation or evidence for this other than legends over
it. Paul was the Apostle of Rome. In fact hierachial system and
priesthood were never part of the original church. It was brought in by
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