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O'Ratty	Monday, 14. September 2009, 07:12
Posts: 418 Group: Members Member #223 Joined: March 15, 2009	There's nothing fishy (sorry!) going on here. There are loads of such anomalies in the synoptic Gospels. There is nothing "magical" about their authorship: three saints, at least one of whom knew the Lord intimately, wrote accounts of his life, each recalling (and thus emphasising) whatever he considered most significant. Three different men, three different characters, three different perspectives, three different circumstances - One Lord. The Church subsequently distinguished these three traditional accounts as "canon" (i.e. "straight edge") - completely in conformity with the Apostolic teaching - from a great welter of other "New Testament" - type material, which wasn't for various reasons, "straight-edged". Ascribing the Petrine verses to a "papal party" is simply an anachronism. If they were appropriated* subsequently to serve developing Papal claims, this was over a period of several centuries. The early Church simply did not, and could not have read Tu es Petrus... and thought "Bishop of Rome". (e.g. Matthew=Torah, Mark=Apocalypse, Luke=Narrative history) Edited by O'Ratty*, Monday, 14. September 2009, 13:15.
	Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St. Gregory of Nyssa

Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah." · General Catholic Discussion