Why does the authority of binding and loosing only go to the Apostles in Matthew 18:18

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[Why does the authority of binding and loosing only go to the Apostles in Matthew 18:18]
is Odd…

b/c everyone knows that that Authority was specifically given to one Apostle: Simon
who became known as Cephas aka Peter

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TK421 said:
Jesus is speaking to the Apostles in private
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A very large part of the gospels consists of Jesus speaking to the apostles in private. His private teaching doesn’t contradict his teaching to everyone, but it’s on a deeper level, a different commission, to a different role they were to play. The modern tendency is to blur this distinction, and all distinctions. In modern culture everyone is supposed to be interchangeable.
 
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A very large part of the gospels consists of Jesus speaking to the apostles in private. His private teaching doesn’t contradict his teaching to everyone, but it’s on a deeper level, a different commission, to a different role they were to play. The modern tendency is to blur this distinction, and all distinctions. In modern culture everyone is supposed to be interchangeable.
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“very large part” seems excessive…

and nothing known that He’d to said to them or in public remain hidden…

ALL … are part of The GOSPEL He Commissioned The Apostles to Preach.
 
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A very large part of the gospels consists of Jesus speaking to the apostles in private. His private teaching doesn’t contradict his teaching to everyone, but it’s on a deeper level, a different commission, to a different role they were to play. The modern tendency is to blur this distinction, and all distinctions. In modern culture everyone is supposed to be interchangeable.
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“very large part” seems excessive…

and nothing known that He’d to said to them or in public remain hidden…

ALL … are part of The GOSPEL He Commissioned The Apostles to Preach.
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Keep in mind St Paul’s analogy of the Body. All preach the gospel but play different parts. What
the bishop says to the Diocesan priests shouldn’t contradict what he says to the Laity but it may be somewhat different.
 
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Keep in mind St Paul’s analogy of the Body. All preach the gospel but play different parts. What
the bishop says to the Diocesan priests shouldn’t contradict what he says to the Laity but it may be somewhat different.
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Yes… Some of us do…

And just because someone is eg/. a Bishop
that position does not equate to them being aligned with the Will of God
and being a member of THE Body.

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Keep in mind St Paul’s analogy of the Body. All preach the gospel but play different parts. What
the bishop says to the Diocesan priests shouldn’t contradict what he says to the Laity but it may be somewhat different.
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Yes… Some of us do…

And just because someone is eg/. a Bishop
that position does not equate to them being aligned with the Will of God
and being a member of THE Body.

)
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Every generation tends to admire some aspects of the gospel, and ignore, even deplore, other aspects.

There have been times when people were quite accepting of the principle of hierarchy, but forgot other things Christians and secularists alike today would consider important. That was then.

Today hierarchy, along with chastity and humility, is the most unpopular aspect of Christianity. St. Paul’s teachings about marriage, or the analogy of the body, are denounced because some have different roles than others, the ultimate political incorrectness.

Sections of the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles showing the powerful status of the apostles and other leaders are just not referred to today. Hierarchy doesn’t fit into 2019 secular Society, or its Church of Nice.
 
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Yesterday the lecture was about John waiting the first pope to enter the empty tomb…
 
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AlbMagno said:
Commenter said the Church doesn’t talk about humility and hierarchy before, but the readings of the Mass yesterday were just about that theme, and at least my priest mentioned it in the homily.
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Actually Western society in general undermines authority and humility. In most tv shows the boss is cruel and/or a fool, the children are smarter than the parents, especially the father. The local (pro abortion) newspaper constantly finds laity, especially women, depicted as heroes for “courageously” criticizing the bishop. Oddly enough, they never interview anyone who finds the Bishop’s authority helpful.
 
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Actually Western society in general undermines authority and humility.
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Why pick on just Western Society
when virtually most/all Societies / Nations- in this worldly world oppose the Authority of God!

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