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To: Elsie

Hmm, something about someone holding keys, and opening and closing...


195 posted on 04/28/2016 12:27:17 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51
Hmm, something about someone holding keys, and opening and closing...

Yeah?

So??

Just WHO is the 'he'?

213 posted on 04/28/2016 1:08:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: kosciusko51; Elsie
>> Hmm, something about someone holding keys, and opening and closing... <<

Not exclusive. Mt. 16:19 does not say "unto thee and thee alone." Speaking to all disciples a bit later, recorded in Mt. 18:18, Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." You is plural in the Greek and in the English.

Bringing that forward, anyone now knowing the essence of The Faith can use It--the Gospel, the keys--to point to the Open Door to the Kingdom of Heaven, the visible church.

Peter used them once, on Pentecost, for the Jews; and once later, for the Gentiles.

However, Jesus' Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, is not of this world (Jn. 18:36), and nobody but Jesus has the key to that Kingdom. He is the Way, The Tuth, the Life, and the Door to that Kingdom. Peter has no control over who enters the Kingdom of God.

229 posted on 04/29/2016 12:27:42 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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