and on this rock i will build my church and i will give to you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. and jesus christ said to peter, who do you say i am? and peter said, tur christ, the son of xwgod. peter voiced the confession and becomes the symbol of the unwavering faith that jesus is the son of god, which is then the center of the christian church. though the word pope is not used for hundreds of years, the foundation of the sacred office is entwined in peter s legacy. the pope s likely inheritance of the apostolic generation. it s this idea of the papacy being the rock, a source of permanence in an age of anxiety that people know is steady. peter preaches that jesus christ died for the sins of man