[metmom]

sure it is....if you bind it on Earth.....God will bind it in Heaven, if you loose it on Earth, God will loose it in Heaven.......there is NO ROOM FOR ERROR there....none.

God will not allow his church to make an error that He has to stand behind.....it will NEVER happen.

So, *POOF*, there goes man's free will.

Catholicism has made God subject to man.

That's the RCC's problem right there. Setting themselves up over God.

What would never happen is that God, the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, would ever make Himself bound to any man.

Philippians 2:9-11 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Jesus would not trust Himself to any man because He knew what was in mens hearts.

John 2:24-25 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

So the priest is really responsible for any individual's salvation. He grants forgiveness. Did he also die for them? Or did Jesus?

[verga]

I love how protestants have to call in reinforcements every time they are getting their butts kicked /MAJOR SARC.

[count-your-change]

As we have discussed before that binding and loosing according to the Greek text occurred before Peter used these keys so Peter was affirming heaven's decision not the other way around.

The mistranslation of Matt. 16:19 in order to support a doctrine of infallabilty and authority is obvious from a simple understanding of the Greek.