Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker Trent Horn.

Today we'll be rebutting a video from Todd Freyel.

Freyel?

He's from the YouTube channel, Retchid Radio, and the video is called 25 Reasons Peter

was Not the Pope.

Now Todd is entertaining, I will say.

And some of the objections he raises are common ones that other Protestant apologists have

raised against the idea of Peter having preeminent authority in the early church, and so serving

as the basis for understanding the papacy.

His other objections are a bit more idiosyncratic, but they're still fun to address.

So with that said, let's take a look at Todd's Reasons and see what's wrong with them.

Number 25, Jesus wasn't installing Peter as the first papa.

He was being clever.

God knows just a wee bit of Greek here.

Peter is the Greek word Petras, a small stone, a little rock.

Very small rock.

Mask-ill in gender when we used to actually have genders.

And now this rock, I will build my church, is the word Boulder, Petra, a mountain peak,

a feminine gender.

The Boulder is the confession.

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