"From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."
This lesson is a partial continuation of yesterday's lesson in that it covers Jesus' response to Peter when Peter challenged His divine mission, His death, burial, and resurrection.
Papal authority, the principal tenet of Roman Catholicism, as well as many of its spinoff sects, is based on what Jesus said to Peter in yesterday's quote, "That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church". That tenet was/is, were it not for the fact that it has caused the condemnation of millions of souls, laughable. Jesus would NEVER have given the "keys to the kingdom" to Peter, then immediately refer to him as "Satan" and tell him, "thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."
No person that Jesus saw as representative of Satan, and who cared more for the principals of mankind than than he did the purpose and principles of God, would have EVER been appointed "The father of the Church"!~
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