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Originally Posted by houston
because she is trying to make it as if Matt 16 and 18 are on the same page.
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I believe there will always be differing views on this.
One thing we should take note is that the Greek is in the perfect tense passive voice participle, which is suggesting that any binding and/or any loosing has already occurred and those effects of that action remain.
You would read the passages as such – “Whatever you shall bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you shall loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”
If Peter or anyone else were to bind or loose anything in the present, that something has already been bound or loosed, in the past, and continues to remain either bound or loosed by God.
IOW, the “whatever” doesn’t give us free reign, but must be weighed against what is already written in God’s Word.
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