Reading The Bible prompts some to ask: Is Protestantism built on an error?
Protestantism holds that the clear words Jesus spoke one time to one man are wrong: “Verily, verily I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
Protestantism does not believe in Jesus as much as in what they insist He did not mean!
Their error? “We think Jesus was wrong, or unable to speak clearly, when He said “Verily, verily I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
Every affirmation compounds that disbelief! “I believe in The Holy Trinity. But, The Second Person of The Trinity, was wrong to say ‘Verily, verily I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’“
Others get around it by saying: “Jesus did not really say that. The Church lied during the first 1,500 years of Christianity and put those words in His mouth.”
That, of course, would mean that Jesus was also wrong to say about the Only Church He Founded, “. . . and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” because the only way His words could have been falsified would be for “the gates of hell” to have prevailed. Again, they contradict Jesus!
And, if Jesus was mistaken about the first two phrases, how could He have been God? Making it worse, they utterly avoid the third phrase that tells exactly what He gave to Peter: “. . . the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”!
While avoiding His word, some insist: “I believe in Jesus so I am saved because I ignore The Only Church He Founded!”
Amazing.
