[count-your-change]

I've stayed off this thread for the most part because I don't want to part of the petty bickering going on and have no intent of starting now.

You addressed your comment to “all” and so I feel justified in replying. So....

In Matt. 16:19 Jesus said he would give the keys to Peter sometime in the future, “I will give..” Not “I am giving.,..”. Peter getting the keys was a future event.

In Act 10:15 Peter in vision is told to stop calling defiled “the things God has (the decision has been made and is in effect) cleansed.”

There is a sequence of time here. Peter is not opening up a new opportunity or making any decision for Cornelius and those like him, that has already been made in heaven.

What role then does Peter have with the “keys”? He is one through whom heavens decision is made, Cornelius is sent to him, to Peter.

At Acts 15:6-11 Peters shows how he had a key as he says it was, “through my mouth” that the message was given that people of nations would be treated without distinction and without having the old Law imposed on them.

Peters used of the keys then was as one announcing heaven's decision not making decisions on any of these matters himself and when he had done so he had used the keys. Others like Paul would take up the message but Peter had a privilege just as John the baptizer did.

Peter used the keys, there are no more for Peter use.

[Cronos]

Nice interpretation of "used" -- And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. --

But you still don't explain why the person who quoted

“So we stand here and with open mouth stare heavenward and invent still other keys. Yet Christ says very clearly in Matt 16:19 that he will give the keys to Peter. He does not say he has two kinds of keys, but he gives to Peter the keys he himself has and no others. It is as if he [Christ] were saying:’ why are you staring heavenward in search of the keys? Do you not understand I gave them to Peter? They are indeed the keys of heaven, but they are not found in heaven. I left them on earth. Don’t look for them in heaven or anywhere else except in Peter’s mouth where I have placed them. Peter’s mouth is my mouth, and his tongue is my key case. His office is my office, his binding and loosing are my binding and loosing’ ”

had a " The lack of understanding of Matt. "