Personal Apologetics website

[Benedict]

I have an amateur's grasp on HTML so I set up my apologetics respository on EzBoard. It was free and the format of a message board allows for easy grouping of articles.

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='Benedict' date='Oct 5 2004, 09:05 PM'] I have an amateur's grasp on HTML so I set up my apologetics respository on EzBoard. It was free and the format of a message board allows for easy grouping of articles. [/quote]
do u have a link to ur apologetics repository?

[goldenchild17]

I'm starting to get all my stuff together. I just had a quick question on something I put in my thesis about Peter and the Papacy. This is in dealing with Matt. 16:17. Is my connection to Jonah(ya know the guy in the whale) to far fetched? I like it and I first saw this connection after I read "Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court". Is it out of line?

[quote]In the first part of this passage Jesus poses a question to all of His disciples.  He asks them who they think He is.  It is Simon Peter that speaks up and answers for all of them “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”  This is one of many times that Peter is seen speaking for all of the disciples(see Matt. 19:27, Mark 10:28 and Mark 11:21). 
Jesus then praises Peter’s answer saying that it was the Father who had revealed this to him.  But even more interesting is that Jesus calls Simon ‘son of Jonah.’  We read in John 1:42 “Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Kephas" (which is translated Peter).”  Jonah is a variation of the name “John”.  But why does Jesus say this?  Why does He use this variation when at other times He calls Peter the “son of John”?  Well, first we look to Matthew 12:40 “Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.”  Here Scripture is showing that Jonah was a symbol of Jesus.  Jonah is a type of Jesus.  Why is this significant?  Jesus called Simon Peter the “Son of Jonah”.  Essentially what Jesus is doing is calling Peter His son.  Here Jesus shows the unique relationship between Himself and Peter, almost that of a father and son. 
This is important because of another connection: David and his son Solomon.  David is another type, another symbol of Jesus.  It was David’s plan to build this temple, 1 Chronicles 28:2, “King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brethren and my people. It was my purpose to build a house of repose myself for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the footstool for the feet of our God; and I was preparing to build it.”  But David did not finish this task.  He left it to his son Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:20, “Then David said to his son Solomon: ‘Be firm and steadfast; go to work without fear or discouragement, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or abandon you before you have completed all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.’”  All throughout 1 Chronicles 28 we see David giving out every little detail about how he wanted this temple to be built.  The temple was eventually finished by Solomon, built up in Jerusalem upon rock, as we see in 2 Chronicles 3:1 “Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, which had been pointed out to his father David, on the spot which David had selected, the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” 
What does this have to do with Peter?  We know that David is a type of Christ.  We know that Jonah is a type of Christ, this was discussed a bit earlier.  Jesus called Simon, “son of Jonah”.  So, in a symbolic sense we see that Simon Peter is the son of Christ.  King David got everything started in the building of the temple, collected funds and materials, gave out directions, but left the completion to his son.  So did Jesus get everything rolling for the building of the Church, but left it’s completion to His spiritual son, Peter.  The Church doesn’t get onto it’s feet until the book of Acts.  It wasn’t until after Christ ascended that the Holy Spirit descended onto the disciples and they started their preaching and having councils.  [/quote]