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Ephesians 2:19-22 the apostles and prophets are foundation. What does a foundation do? It upholds. It does not build. It is a support. It is not the builder, nor is it the focal point.

So too pillars. They uphold what is being built.

It is the Holy Spirit that draws people and builds the body of Christ. The keys to the kingdom of God are the scriptures. The binding and loosing is already determined and actually reads "having already been". The apostles nor anyone else can not determine who gets into heaven. God alone does that and that having been determined before time began.

Only God can forgive sins. The Pharisees were angry with Christ for that very reason. Jesus was forgiving sins and that was one of the indications they should have caught that He indeed was God. The apostles were not God and neither are the priests.

Try reading Ephesians 2:19-22, slowly and reverently. After you master that, try John 21:15-22; afterward try Galatians 2:7-8.

Already have, several times. Does not a Roman Catholic church make. Just the Church Jesus founded.

af vet - Does this sound like the Catholic Church? If what you claim is true, the Catholic Church has strayed so far from the Apostles instruction that it's origins are irrelevant and it should be allowed to fade away with dignity.

1 Timothy 3:1-12King James Version (KJV)

1 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.