Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Because of the very grave nature of venerating frail and faulty mortals it has become necessary for us to address one of the most serious errors pertaining to Peter, and his supposed role in the Christian church, regarding authority. When Christ spoke the words: “Upon this rock will I build my church” He was not referring to Peter, but to Himself, for as we have seen before, The Rock is A God.
Furthermore, it could never be Peter, for when one reads further down in the narrative, we discover a man subject to passions like as we are; one who can get riled up in a moment when interfered with, one who, before conversion, would curse out persons in public, and one who would resort to violence, when threatened. Thus, The Rock could never be Peter.
In the passage above we discovered that Christ gave to Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven, so, we must of necessity find out what are those keys. The passage gives us a clue, for it specifically states that the keys would enable the binding or the loosing of things in heaven and earth. So, we ask the question again: What are those keys?
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!