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#247 Is Peter Really the Foundation of the Church? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

ow can the Catholic church teach that Peter is the rock or the foundation of the church when St. Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 3:11 that there is no other foundation besides Jesus?

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Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus I'm Cy Kelle at your host joined in

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studio by Carlo Broussard, apologist here at Catholic Answers

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and author of a couple of very fine books,

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including Prepare the Way,

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and meeting the Protestant challenge.

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Hello, Carla.

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Hey, Cy, thank you for saying they're fine books.

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They are fine books, Very fine print. I had

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trouble reading them. I put my glasses on. I got a challenge for you today.

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Okay. Regarding the person of Peter. Okay so this is one that we

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often hear in the contemporary world. Basically how can the Catholic Church that

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teach that Peter is the rock or the foundation of the church.

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When Paul teaches in the first letter to the Corinthians,

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chapter 3, verse 11,

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that there is no other foundation except Jesus.

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Yes.

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How do you fix that?

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This is a common challenge that's posed to us and it would seem on the surface that when

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Paul says there is no other foundation to lay except Jesus Christ

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in First Corinthians 311 that our belief that Peter is the foundation of the

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church seems to contradict that right yeah so how do we meet this challenge well this is a challenge that I

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I'll

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