Question:
Please tell me if Peter, one of Christ’s disciples, was a Catholic. Does it say anywhere in the Bible that Peter was a Catholic?
Answer:
The Bible does not say that Peter was a Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, or member of any other denomination or sect. He was a disciple and an apostle of Jesus Christ, one of the leading ones among the apostles, one of the very first to confess Jesus as the Christ, as we learn from Matthew 16, in which Jesus said to him that flesh and blood had not revealed to him that great truth, but the Father in heaven; and then Jesus tells him that he is Peter, a stone; and ” upon this Rock [his confession in Christ Jesus the Rock] I will build My church; and the gates of hell [hades–the grave] shall not prevail against it.” The church was built not upon Peter but upon Christ Jesus. See 1 Cor. 3:11; 1 Peter 2:6-8. Peter is one of the living stones built on Christ, the foundation.
