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FWIW, according to Jewish culture, keys mean authority.No, I was led put of that religious system to Christ himself.
And you say Jesus established the one true church with Peter,
Yet Peter didn’t say that or Paul
In fact we read some interesting verses that you may want to consider,
Paul (not Peter here) said,
2 Corinthians 11: 28. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.”
Galatians 2:. 6. But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: 7. But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8. (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. 9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed”
Isaiah explained it in 22. He then prophesied the child born unto us would have the 'government on His shoulder'.
In that time, the King [or steward in the kings absence] tied the kingdom keys with a rope around the waist and over the shoulder.
Jesus is King and He handed the earthly kingdom to Peter [His steward and henceforth], by the keys which means authority.
So it is more than reading an English translated Bible to understand. It's the culture, the Hebrew, the Koine Greek and so forth.
An English translation is rather insufficient.
Solo scriptura, if you wish to quote Peter or Paul, goes against what they have said.
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