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Re: What I have learned from AFF
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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
Reads backwards? How so? I guess I'm not understanding your point clearly.
This doesn't seem to be a mysterious verse to me. Upon this "rock" (revelation) I build my church... you are Peter and I give you keys (authority) to bind and loose. This is the authority that the church has even today. In a primary reading, this is setting Peter up as the potential leader early on in the church (despite the knowledge that James was the leader of the church in the 1st century). This is why Catholics refer to Peter as their first pope.
I understand that Peter is not establishing anything that hasn't already been established, but that is exactly how the Spirit works anyway!
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It reads backwards in that Peter is declaring what has already been established in Heaven and not the other way around.
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