#12204 Does Calling Peter the Rock Contradict Deuteronomy? - Tim Staples

Catholic Answers Live

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If God is called “the Rock” in Deuteronomy, how can Catholics say Peter is the rock in Matthew 16:18? We explore how Scripture uses the term and why identifying Peter as the rock of the Church doesn’t take anything away from God’s ultimate authority.

Help us reach our goal by donating! Catholicanswersradio.com

Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here

Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com

Questions Covered:

29:47 – If a person confesses their sins to a person who is portraying themself as a priest, is that confession valid?
40:07 – Is the following a proper analogy: We are like the apostles who were lost in the quantity of fish they caught and didn’t recognize Jesus along the shore? We get caught up in our daily distractions and don’t recognize Jesus.
48:47 – How does the Church resolve God being the rock such as in Deuteronomy?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Buying or selling your home, real estate for life can connect you with a pro-life real estate agent.
0:05.8	When Real Estate for Life receives a referral fee, they donate 65% to Catholic Answers.
0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. I am Sykeld, it's your host.
0:34.1	Tim Staples, our guest this hour, for Ask Me Anything.
0:37.8	We're going to do just a little bit of fundraising before we get to that.
0:41.2	And I just want to let you know where we were.
0:43.0	Darren, I'm totally confused.
0:44.2	Did we make the match or not?
0:45.3	Did we miss the match last hour?
0:46.5	I'm looking at the numbers.
0:48.7	We came up $181 short of meeting the match.
0:54.0	I'm ashamed of myself. I thought the way to do this,
0:58.4	these Pledge Drivers, is just tell people the truth. And I'm going to rethink that strategy.
1:03.0	Because I said we're doing great. And then the phones died. I'll tell you what. We'll start again.
1:07.7	How much were we off? $186? All right. So we would need someone to give $360 to make up for what we'll start again is that what one how much were we off one hundred eighty six dollars all right so we would need someone to give three hundred sixty
1:13.2	to to make up for what we lost there at the end if you want if you want to make up for
1:17.2	our our failures there at the last hour three hundred sixty about three
1:20.6	hundred sixty bucks will do it because it was it would have been doubled
1:23.7	the number to give if you are so inclined and we hope that you will be so inclined, is 888-291-8,000.
1:31.2	14 lines open right now.
1:33.4	Every three months, we come to you ask you to help us keep this radio program on the air, and that's what we are doing right now.
1:39.7	Let me reset for this hour, because we are reset for this hour.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Catholic Answers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Catholic Answers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.