hoser said:Twelve Quotations from Ten Protestant Biblical Scholars
Thank you. Let's see, there are about 400,000,000 Protestants in the world. So, if I"m keeping track of all the zeros in my head, that makes 0.00000025% of them. Okay.
Some points...
1. Protestants do not consider men - even Protestant men - to be our norma normans for theology. We place Scripture in that role.
2. We all know the hermeneutics of this singular verse is disputed. I think we've all been all over it - for centuries. I'm not sure anyone here is going to resolve it once and for all.
3. MY problem with the interpretation offered by some is that it makes Christianity embodied in Peter. He received the "keys" (another controversy), he had all authority. There's zero mention of the other Apostles, nothing about "and you can surrender this to whoever you want" nothing about the Roman Pontiff or any denomination. Nope, with this interpretation, it's all Peter's. Well, Peter died. So, if this interpretation is correct, everything ended when he died, and when Paul and others forgave people, etc., they had no such authority - and none have since 68 AD (or whatever date you give for his death). The apostolic sucession concepts inserted into this text just aren't there and seem to raise many more problems than solutions.
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