Jesus told Peter to 'feed my sheep'. Jesus gave the 'keys' to the Kingdom (not the church and not the institution of catholicism) to Peter and we see clear evidence IN SCRIPTURE of Peter using those keys to open the door/gate to Justification, first to the Jews on Pentecost, then to the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius.
Jesus, via The Holy Spirit, builds His own Church, and it is not an institution named catholicism.
-— we see clear evidence IN SCRIPTURE of Peter using those keys to open the door/gate to Justification -—
Scripture shows that the keys that Jesus gave Peter were the keys of the Vizier of the eternal Davidic Kingdom, of which Jesus is king.
Jesus sits on David’s throne. See Luke.
The master of the palace or vizier of the king in the ancient world and in the Davidic kingdom was the king’s “right hand man.” In Kings the vizier rules in place of an incapacitated king.
In Isaiah 22 we see the succession in office of the vizier, from Shebna to Eliakim.
The office was represented by an oversized key that the vizier wore around his neck.
In Isaiah the vizier is described as “a father to Judah” with the power to “open and shut.”
Jesus gives Peter both the office of His Vizier, and also the power to “bind and loose,” meaning indisputable ecclesiastical authority. Look up “binding and loosing” in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
If Protestants don’t know this they can blame their pastors.
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