Jesus told Peter, "On this rock, I will build my church". What do you think the rock is, and why?

(I will vote soon).

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Pastor Nathan Eshelman, Los Angeles, CA
Reformed Presbyterian Church
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It is the confession that Jesus is the son of God.
And the reason ... well because I think it is pretty obvious from the text.
just my

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I just wanted to be the ONLY one to vote this way

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Adam B., Wine Country, California, PCA

"I fear not to hold with Junius, de Politia Mosis cap. 6, that he who was punishable by death under that Judicial law, is punishable by death still; and he who was not punished by death then, is not to be punished by death now."

I didn't know which way to vote, since I find the distinction between Jesus the Son of God, and the practical confession of Jesus as the Son of God to be an unnecessary one. Surely, Jesus is the foundation, the rock upon which the church is built (1 Co. 3:11, Eph. 2:20); and yet just as surely is the foundation of the church (though considered under a different aspect) the confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God: for what other cause does the church exist than the proclamation and living out of this confession?

Curiously enough, I was reading the first chapter of Owen's Christologia last night, and thought this was a wonderful quote regarding Peter's confession here:

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Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI

They who perceive in themselves discoveries of the divine goodness, so full and absolutely perfect, and who make them the subject of earnest meditation, will never embrace new doctrines, by which the very grace they feel so powerfully in themselves is thrown into the shade. --John Calvin

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Imo, it is not an either or question. It is not just the confession...it is not just the Apostle...it is not just Christ.


The rock that the Church is built on is the Apostle(s) confessing Christ.

So, I guess I could not really vote, there is not an option for the above.

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Shawn
Orthodox Presbyterian
Denver, Colorado

Open my eyes Lord, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. Psalm 119:18

But you can't separate the confession from the man. Peter and the confession were one! Jesus built the church with Peter and that confession and the church grew from there.

I wish I could take back my vote. I would say "Peter" and not the confession because the church is made of up people not words. But again it's the two: people confessing Jesus - they are the church - it's words and people.

Here's a question that has me stumped. Why wasn't the church built on Nathaniel? He confessed Christ in the beginning of John!

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Bryan Wiley
Layman
Reformed Baptist Church
Louisville, Kentucky

"Seek the Kingdom of God first."

I say Jesus as the Rock of offense and the stone of stumbling.

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

I vote on options 1, 3, and 4. But since I couldnt choose all three I voted for option #5.

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Bryan Riddle
1689 London Baptist Confession
Bethel Baptist Church Owasso, Oklahoma

Another option, not given, is that Peter is the "ideal confessor" an example of all who would so confess Christ, the chief corner stone. These confessors are founded upon the Apostles and Prophets (Ephesians 2.20) This seems to be in line with Peter's own commentary on this event, 1 Peter 2.4-10

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Rev. Todd Ruddell
Pastor, Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCGA)
Wylie, TX
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Our best marks can contribute nothing to our justification, ...that is proper to faith. Faith cannot lodge in the soul alone, and without other graces; yet faith alone justifies before God.--G. Gillespie

I thought this was well-settled in Reformed circles.

OK.

It's Peter's confession, but not the confession so much as it was the revelation to Peter of what he confessed. It was not a confession by flesh and blood but a confession of what the Father via the Spirit revealed to him concerning the Son.

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Mike Arnaud
OPC
Oak Harbor, WA