Matthew 16 is NOT about the pope
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The Church Father regularly said this, and the Greek itself indicates that this is not the establishment of the papacy. Rather, this is talking about the keys of the kingdom, the authority to excommunicate/absolve, binding and loosing someone to/from their sin.
In this video I get into both of those things... but if you want a bunch of Church Father quotes, I'll paste a few below.
Let's get into it!
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