When Yah’shua spoke those words, what constituted the WORD?
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“And I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Iwill give your the keys to the kingdom of heaven.”
“Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Are you asserting Christ is referring to himself in this sentence as well?
What would be the point or the meaning.
The Tanach
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Have a wonderful journey on the wide road of life. Clearly the Roman "church" REJECTS the WORD
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
and replaces it with man-made religion.