What is the key to heaven
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missy2014
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I was just going to say Jesus theres no greater example for you than Jesus read the gospl es short of that you wont learn humility and humility is great in the eyes of God Jesus said learn of me because he was meek
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missy2014
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your wrong when you say 'they' i know you disagree with the apostolic church because you feel they are the only ones that has a secret but we are All his body and that is scripture so regardless of sin or faults in All denominations whether slave or free greek or jew we need each other there is no perfect church so while you disgruntled by the Apostolic church because you think they have a secret nobody else does actually look at Jesus God not man youll get dissapointed otherwise.
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Kaycie
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No, the keys to the kingdom of heaven are hear, believe, repent, confess, be baptized, and remain faithful until death.
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Who is "we?" And what do the words of a song have to do with Biblical Truth? What a weird question to ask........
Do you know that Jesus said: I am the way, the truth and the life.......no man can come unto the Father except through me.................so, given that, what would YOU SAY is the "key" to heaven?
Go ahead there, jump right in!
The key to the Kingdom is the Spirit of knowledge given to us by God through His Word and Spirit to keep us and guide us in the Way...Truth...Life.
Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
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sveinen
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Matthew 16:19
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.
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.
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phil112
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I would say salvation thru repentence is the key. Jesus is the way, the path that gets us there.
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mikeuk
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A direct reference back to the keys of a davidic kingdom,
Isaiah 22 (from memory) which are the symbol of an office, as steward, in charge whilst the king was away.
The jews were obsessive about their own history, even more obsessive about the old testament and deriving meanings from it, so this meaning of keys will clearly have occurred to them, not least because Jesus was heralded as a davidic king, and the messiah would come from that line.
Trouble is, protestants don't like the obvious conclusion from that argument, even though Luther and Calvin believed it!
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And how is this applied?
1Co 12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
The way the church carries out the work of God today is different than the first century. Neither the church or a man has the authority to loose or bind God's Law.
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mikeuk
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However comfortable that assumption, That is clearly not what it says.
Indeed the other passages "those sins you would forgive , will be forgiven"
Clearly illustrates delegated authority The only question is who and when.
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mikeuk
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mikeuk
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Interestingly , what I came to this forum for, was not to promote my own beliefs, but to find out how others come to an alternative belief.
Someone or something is given "authority to bind and loose" which had established meanings in judaism and jewish culture,
If you don't like the RC version - what is yours? You cannot ignore it as a scripture! So who does it apply to and when?