#29 Matthew 16 and the Papacy

Many Christians reject the papacy because they don’t see a fully formed Vatican I Papacy in the New Testament. But what if that expectation misunderstands how divine institutions begin?

This episode lays out the five major interpretations of Matthew 16 and subjects each one to the same textual tests to determine which reading of Matthew 16 allows the text to speak most naturally, and which requires the most theological “autofill”?