Scripture NEVER says all Christians can loose and bind but make it up as you go, right?
GW never says "all Christians" can or cannot loose and bind, you make it up that they cannot,
whereas I sew Matt. 16:19, 18:18, Mark 11:24 and Matt. 26:39-42 together to arrive at the reasonable view
that all fallible Christians should pray, bind and loose in accordance with the perfect will of God.
Not sure why you kick against the goad of Scripture, but I suspect you were brainwashed,
because you projected "whoever told you" onto me, whereas I studied this question on my own and
state the following as TOJ #102 in Matt. 16:19b & 18:18:
TOJ #102: Excommunicate fruitless “Christians”. [Matt. 16:19b, 18:17-18] Although saints are not perfect, someone who typically exhibits sinful fruit (Gal. 5:19-21) apparently is not a genuine Believer (TOJ #48 & #148). The reference to binding and loosing is problematic, because it can be applied incorrectly, as it was most notably by the Roman popes against Martin Luther and the Protestants.
Jesus does seem to say {also in John 20:23} that, IF Believers represent God’s will on earth rightly, then their disfellowship reflects the ultimate status of the excommunicant. (See TOJ #65, #123 & #152.) However, this is a big “IF”, so the danger of committing the sin of judgmentalism should lead us to adopt the view that disfellowship does not mean Christians cease all interaction with a sinning or carnal person (1Cor. 3:1-3), but rather that they change the nature of the relationship from fellowshipping to witnessing and reproving. Paul once advocated this doctrine (in 1Cor. 5:1-13).
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Again, binding and loosing seems to be speaking of fellowship with those deemed to be Christians or excommunication of those deemed to be unchristian, which should be done in the manner described by Jesus that probably would prompt faith fakers to excommunicate themselves although the intent was to prompt repentance.
