The devil tries to get everywhere.
Keep reading that Acts chapter and see who makes the ruling. It was James not Peter. Actually before that take notice that the Apostles AND the elders were gathered to discuss this. This is how they worked. Like a council. Peter didn’t just say this is how it is. They actually drafted a letter as a group and as a group decided who would deliver it. See Peter acting like the Pope making those decisions. Then flip to Galatians and read how Paul publicly rebuked Peter for his behavior. Look at the words used to describe Peter’s behavior. Not very fitting of a Pope wouldn’t you say? How dare Paul talk to the first Pope like that!!
inChrist-
Sadly you’re interpretation is wrong again.
Look how James’ “judgement”(Acts 15:20) is in direct agreement with the original rhetorical question by Peter of not placing a yoke on the Gentiles that they themselves could not bear. James was simply agreeing with what Peter said, not issueing any order.
Two, Paul, as with Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, were not reproving Peter not for his
doctrine but for his failure of
will. They were faulting him for not living up to his own doctrine.
At the council it was
Peter that ***defined the doctrine *** which James
confirmed and
adapted.
Acts 11, when “the circumcision party” confronted him, Peter simply explained to them what God had shown him-and their hostility ended, immediately, without dissent, discussion, or further questioning. “When they heard this they were silenced” (Acts 11:18)
Peter’s authority was, in many ways,
like the authority of the other Apostles. Yes, he shared power with them; he consulted with them; he received correction from them. Yet the buck always stopped with him. In Acts 1, Peter directed the apostolic college on how they with the crisis of Judas’ death.
I would ask you inChrist if the office of the apostles wasn’t meant to continue in their predesessors why do they quote the OT (Acts 1:20) “His office let another take.”? Can we really persuade ourselves that this prerogative of succession was given to Judas but not to Peter?
I don’t think so.
Clement(Phillipians 4:3) who was given Peter’s office after his death in Rome wrote to the church in Corinth, “You will give us joy and gladness if you render obedience unto the things written by us through the Holy Spirit.”
Ignatuis of Antioch(105 A.D.) addressed the Roman Church- which Peter had been in charge of and passed this office onto Clement before his death-“the Church worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy of sanctification, and presiding in love, maintaining the law of Christ.”
Irenaeus (190 A.D.) in speaking of the Roman Church: “With this Church it is necessary that every Church, that is, the faithful who are everywhere, should be in agreement, because of her greater sovereignty; in which the apostolic tradition has always been safeguarded.”
From the earliest of her days, the universal Church-those who are everywhere-looked to Rome for leadership and sure doctrine. In the following centuries more great names of early Christianity-St. Athanasius, St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil of Caesarea, St. Augustine, St. Cyril of Alexandria-when they found themselves in trouble, they appealed to the See of Peter-to Rome-for vindication.
Christ intended Peter, and in following years those upon whom were called to Peter’s office, to be the personification of the unity that He intended for His Church.
You and other Protestants like you, reject Peter’s office.
Luke 10:16 “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
I think your hangup with the word Catholic is that you see it as the church Jesus founded. And while no Protestant would ever disagree with you the modern day use of Catholic has evolved to Roman Catholic which Protestants view as one branch of the Catholic church. Just like the Orthodox Catholic church doesn’t submit to the authority of Rome they still view themselves as Catholic, part of the universal church of Jesus. If you said to an Orthodox Catholic are you Catholic? They would say yes but not Roman Catholic because we don’t submit to the Pope.