If Peter was the first pope, why was he an equal, and why did he not give the decision

why was there even a need for a council

if there was a pope

additionally, Peter also wrote in 1 Pet 5:1 "To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed.."

"as a fellow elder" now why did he not speak with authority but spoke to the others as equals?

peter is indeed the rock of the church

Official catholic doctrine calls Peter "First among equals"

this is affirmed

elder = apostles

The other patriarchs are equals too

in that case there soon wouldn't be any more elders among which he was equal

The Antioch Patriarch domain allows priest marriages, for example

That's not how the Catholic church views it. Papal infallibility does not state that any cardinal can correct a theological view of the Pope

but at no time did God decree that a man "the pope" would lead his church after peter and hear gods word and be infallible

this is all heresy

Not cardinal. Patriarchs

the orthodox remained true

So Patriarchs are all infallible?

Catholicism likely got a Guinnes book entry for being strawmanned

This is not Catholic dogma my guy

yet he claims this

Not infalible, but equals yes

Yep, when the pope speaks bs than it's francis bs, there are a lot of conditions to be met for it to be the popes bs

Or are they

I forgot

If they're equal why does the Pope have infallibility

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Catholic_Church

I'm sorry dude but it really strikes me like you're just using Catholicism as a tool instead of having genuine belief

Look upon the historical actions of this pope

more proof need you not

The total us state budgets of possible states that could join right now is 731.7B

their actions are of pure evil

Multiply that by .03

and have created much travail in this world

Thats 22B

Because peter was first among them

His word carries more weight

Well evidently they didn't considering Paul literally corrected him

peter was the only "pope" if you wanna go with that term

And he was the only one promised by jesus to the tying earth with heaven thing

Ah yes ofc