The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Petra and Petros

Sorry, but below is where I concluded that is what you meant. If I have read you wrong, accept my apologies. But it seemed and still does that is the meaning of your words.

Or, to ask this in another way: Was there a unique and very special blessing, other than the affirmation of his elected faith in the Son of God, bestowed upon Peter by our Lord? I've come to believe that there was, and the blessing has to do with the word of God in Scripture and its canonization.

One does not have to go far in studying the canonization of the New Testament documents before discovering that apostolic witness and authority plays the major role. (among many other tests)

What we find is witness to the apostolate of Peter by the Gospels of Matthew and John. The only witness to the apostolicity of Paul, other than Paul himself, is found in 2 Peter 3:15,16. Paul in turn witnesses to the discipleship of Mark and Luke.

It follows then, that Peter is given by the Spirit of God witness, authorship or apostolic authority for fully 18 of the 27 New Testament books. They are, 1 and 2 Peter, the Gospels of Mark and Luke, the book of Acts and all of the Pauline Epistles! No one can deny that this is an unprecedented blessing, as Peter was given a unique and unspeakable, eternal honor in the participation and presentation of the majority of New Testament Scripture and gift of God's Holy Word to the Church.

Secondly, with regard to the "authorship or apostolic authority for fully 18 of the 27 New Testament books" being attributed to Peter, this simply isn't factual. Peter wrote only 2 letters of the N.T. He is not given any "apostolic authority" for anything else. But at the risk of being accused of misconstruing what you wrote, can you explain in detail what YOU mean by "apostolic authority for" these 18 books? In fact where is any Apostle given "authority for" anything they wrote? Further, it was the Apostle Paul who is highlighted as being the most prolific evangelist of the Gospel of Christ; not Peter. So the honor of having a "unique and unspeakable, eternal honor in the . . . presentation . . . of the Scripture" belongs to Paul. And the other honor of which you speak of, i.e., the "participation of the N.T.", actually belongs to Luke, who wrote more of the N.T. than all the other authors combined. Lastly, it would appear that Peter's ministry was mostly with regard to the Jews, but Paul's ministry encompassed both Gentiles and Jews, and over an incredible amount of territory.

Conclusion... once again, I simply cannot find any evidence to support your claim(s). And, I find no biblical warrant to single out Peter as one who received a special blessing over any of the other Apostles.

In His Grace,