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To: GoLightly; kawaii
Is there one set of keys or are there a bunch of them? Did Christ hand out keys all around?

He gave the power to bind and loosen ("the keys") to the original set of Apostles (minus Judas). "The keys" are not physical keys but the authority from God. The Apostles, in turn, passed that on to their successors, by the same authority.

206 posted on 06/20/2007 5:32:12 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
He gave the power to bind and loosen ("the keys") to the original set of Apostles (minus Judas). "The keys" are not physical keys but the authority from God. The Apostles, in turn, passed that on to their successors, by the same authority.

He gave them to Peter, along with the charge to feed His sheep. Your position on it, that they were given to all of the Apostles & their successors is an interesting innovation.

213 posted on 06/20/2007 5:43:50 AM PDT by GoLightly
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