Subject: satan and his power?!?!?!?!?!?hmmmmmm... |
Bible Note: DL5, First let me say I admire your testimony and perserverence expressed in your personal history posted recently. On the subject of binding and loosing in Matt 16:198-19 and 18:18: I think it is very clear from the context that these verses refer to binding authority in the governance of the Church by Peter and the other Apostles and they are not in this context referring to the binding of demons. The terms "binding" and "loosing" were already in use among the Rabbis of Jesus' time and can be seen in the Talmud. It referred to the authority to make binding decisions within the religious community. Citing these passages in reference to the resistance or "binding" of demons is, I believe, reading something into these particular passages something that is not there. Emmaus |