Momma Angel wrote:Well, I was always taught that "the rock" was the message of Jesus, so, I never thought Peter was the first pope as I have heard it's been told. But, that's just my take on it.
Aside from that, though, the Church is a Covenant People, and such a People can only continue from age to age through transmission of the Covenant from one generation of that People to ecah new one. If the gates of Hades did not prevail, then it is through undying Transmission from elder to new Christian.