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The keys to the Kingdom, quite simply, is discipleship. A disciple, as you know, must be equipped with knowledge and wisdom, and the only two ways that he can get it, is through prayer and in studying the Word of God. To be deficicient in either is to be unequipped for the task that was given to you.

You hold the keys, not Peter, not Paul, and certainly no one person or group on earth or in any church, whatever its claim to holiness is.

If any of you are unlearned in the Word in this day and age, you have no excuse and you will stand before the Lord on that great and terrible day and give an account of yourselves and of the shepherds that were supposed to teach you.

I have had my fun on this thread, but in truth, the things that I have said were to expose your lack of knowledge in the Word and that lack of understanding is appalling. God Himself said, "The people perish because of a lack of knowledge."

It is your duty, as ones who possess the keys to the Kingdom, to point others who seek, to Christ. To direct one who is perishing and will perish without refuge within the true ARK, to anyone else, no matter how holy you may think he or she is, is to commit soul murder and you will have to answer for that, as suredly as if you have killed an entire universe.

You hold the keys

Oh yeah, the part that says "Aquinasfan, you are Rock, and on this Rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." 20