BINDING AND LOOSING

BASIC R.C. BELIEF

The binding and loosing power given to Peter in Mastthew 16:19 and the

other apostles in Matthew 18:18 is identical to the jurisdiction exercised

by the Pope as the head of the Church and by the priest in the

Confessional.

POST VATICAN II

The Vatican II document LUMEN GENTIUM cites Matthew 16:19 and 18:18 as the

basis for the Pope's absolute and the bishops' relative power over the

Church.

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

The Apsostles could not have understood the above to be the case, and they

had been given the promise that the Holy Spirit would make Christ's words

understandable to them. They did not have a Confessional in the early

Church (In fact, Confession boxes were not invented until the 16th

century.) They proclaimed the Gospel, which was the power of God to the

loosing of sains for all who believed and the binding of sins of those who

rejected. (Romans 1:16)

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