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the spiritual and temporal leader of his peo- was a married man. Check it out in
ple, was born in Mecca between A.D. 570 (MATTHEW 8:14). Peter was not infallible
and 580. He was an orphan was raised first as Popes claimed to be because he was
by his grandfather, Adb al-Muttalib, and rebuked by Paul in front of the congrega-
then by his uncle, Abu Talib. At the age of tion for being a hypocrite. (GALATIANS
25 he married a wealthy widow, Khadija. 2:11-14) How can then Peter be the Pope?
Her money provided him with ease and
independence needed to investigate and When Jesus said, “Thou art Peter and
appraise the religious situation in Arabia, upon this rock I will build my church.”
Peter was not the Rock but it was Jesus.
The strong monotheism, the theory of The confession of Peter saying “Jesus is
revelation, and the Biblical element in the Son of the living God,” is the founda-
the Koran all suggest that Muhammad tion of Christ’s Church that means that
was exposed to both Christian and Jewish Jesus is God. That confession is the key.
influence. What compelled Muhammad Not the literal keys that we see in images
to undertake his world-shaking career in which Peter is seen holding keys in front
will always remain shrouded in mystery. of the door of Heaven. That’s ridiculous!
What is clear is that he was disturbed The Lord said, “I will give you the keys,”
and disgusted by the idolatry of his the reason why the keys here is plural
contemporaries. By the tip of his sword because Jesus was not only talking to
Muhammad conquered Jerusalem and the Peter. He was talking to all who will
whole Mediterranean world and converted proclaim the gospel. The pronoun word
its inhabitants to Islam. The question again “you” here is also plural. He is talking to all
is why God allowed it to happen? born again Christians to tell people that Je-
sus is the Son of the living God and implying
There has always been an attempt by the that the Savior Himself is God, which is the
devil to contaminate the gospel ever since very foundation of His Church and that con-
the church of Christ was established in fession is the key. (MATTHEW 16: 13-19)
the first century A.D. but the tidal wave
of mass deception converting Christians The total conversion of the Christian
to paganism was during the reign of Church to paganism was on the third
Constantine the Great. Constantine century A.D. The mass destruction and
embraced Christianity and became the murders of the idolater Catholics by
the spiritual leader of the church while Muhammad and his army happened on
he was at the same time the Pontifex the six century exactly the third gen-
Maximus, which is the title of the highest eration of the parents that became
pagan priest. Do you wonder why it is the idolaters. The churches that became a har-
title of the Pope of Rome until today? The lot also became the Babylonian religion.
first Pope actually was Constantine and
not Peter. Peter had never been in Rome. There are several meanings of the word
There is neither historical fact nor Biblical “generation” and one of them is the av-
record that Peter had been in Rome. They erage time interval between the birth of
only made up the story and it was only parents and the birth of their offspring.
a legend. It was Paul who was in Rome The dictionary doesn’t have a specific
as a prisoner when he wrote letters from number of years a generation has. But
there, but Paul had no mention of Peter. if we are going to refer the Scriptures a
Peter was not even the prominent leader generation is approximately a hundred
of the Church in Jerusalem; it was James years. Let us read (GENESIS 15:13-16),
the half-brother of the Lord Jesus. Peter Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Know
has his mother-in-law that means he for certain that your descendants will be
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