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Now this is a very famous text that has caused all kinds of
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disagreement between Roman Catholics and Protestants.
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Roman Catholics take this text as teaching that Jesus,
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particularly selected Peter as the first Pope,
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and that when he says, I'm giving you the keys to the kingdom,
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it means the Pope or the Bishop of Rome
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is the one who has the right to bind or loose that
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Jesus is talking about here.
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Protestants rejected that interpretation and they said
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well no he's talking sure he's talking to Peter in
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one sense but he was really talking to all the apostles,
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and in fact, the issue of binding and loosing