1) You have said that:
Next, he criticizes my use of John 21:15-17 and says that Jesus is our only ruler, but this is untrue. Granted, only God has the ultimate authority, but in this passage, Jesus clearly delegates Peter (and only Peter) as the temporal head of the Church on earth.
Jesus clearly delegates only Peter as the temporal head of the Church on earth. If Peter was the only temporal head of the Church on earth, then only Peter is the head of the Church. Why are there successors if Peter is the only temporal head of the Church?
2) If Peter was the only one to receive the keys as being necessary for him to hold the place of primacy, why were those keys given also in Matthew 18 to the 12, and not only to Peter?
3) Wouldn�t the fact that the 12 and later, all Apostles of Christ possessed the keys of the kingdom demonstrate that Peter was not the alone leader of the Church?
4) Can you demonstrate from the text itself of Acts 15:5-31 that it was Peter�s and not James�s �judgment� that the Gentiles not be burdened with anything but the 4 things listed in the passage, of which was included in the letter?
5) Since there is no extant Aramaic manuscript (since none ever existed), and since the Gospel according to Matthew was written in Greek, as I have demonstrated in other places throughout this debate, can you examine the two different words used in Matthew 16:16-19, and provide lexical sources (Thayer�s, etc.) that demonstrate they have the same meaning?