The Holy Spirit Did
Jesus addressed Peter-I know what the other folks are saying, I'm Elijiah reincarnated, I'm a prophet, I'm Jeremiah come back- but Peter- I'm asking you- who DO YOU say that I am?
"You are the Son of God." "You are the Messiah" said Peter.
to which Jesus replied: Flesh and Blood has not told you this (no one around here is saying that- no person so advised you)- you were thus advised by The Holy Spirit- The Holy Spirit told you. Now you know. Because The Holy Spirit told you. The orthodoxy didn't get it yet. They were all stuck on 'You are Jeremiah or some prophet."
Peter had direct communication with God. God told him -look, this is Jesus the Messiah, my Son.
God picked Peter before Jesus acknowledged it. God knew Peter was a married man, God ordained the marriage of Peter presumably in a proper Jewish wedding. This did not disqualify him from having the keys to heaven, or being a Petras, piece of the Rock called the Petra.
Jesus knew women to be equal in every respect to men and that they were the ONLY suitable helpmate for Adam. God created the institution of marriage before any priest ordained it in the garden. It is as primordially pure a oneness as Christ is with his church, his body. The two become one flesh.
God gave the seed of his flesh to a human woman. This human woman became a mother blessed. If she were not the Blessed Mother she would be just another Jewish teenager and history would take no note. She was a Mother. Blessed Among Women.
No Jewish Priest relished childlessness. The priest Zechariah was visited by an Angel and stunned to silence in disbelief when told he would have a son he should name John. It was not a
badge of honor to be childless. Abraham is considered righteous because he believed well into his old age he would have a son when told by God. Story after story appears about women who had children against the odds- Samson's mother was barren and advanced in age.
Yet childlessness marks holiness in women "religious" in catholic orthodoxy. Priests who know no family of their own, take no wives- even though Paul said it was a "right" to take a wife like "Cephas" (Peter) only qualify for catholic priesthood. Eunichood, which can be just as selfish and miserly a disposition, is elevated to the height of piety, and anyone who disagrees and acts on the "right to take a wife" just gets kicked out. So "faux wives" "substitute wives" fill the void.
Wrong. Evil. Doctrinally on it's head and off its rocker. Insupportable. Manifesting harm. Needs to be changed.
Until the Roman church does something on this the Moscow orthodoxy should not and likely will not subjugate themselves to the "Petrine Primacy" because they may be closer to the actual Peter model than the current Papacy on this point.
Those who know the correct answer to the primordial question above, "Who Do You Say That I Am" and respond "You are the Son of God, The Messiah"- to all those Jesus said, on THAT
I will build my church. Those who know him and call on his name shall be saved- anyone, everyone. who knows the right answer:
No one can say "Jesus is Lord" but by the Holy Spirit. Whom the Father chooses, he also saves.
No Flesh and Blood Told you this- they, the orthodoxy don't get it yet.
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