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Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 16 - Revised Standard Version
The Demand for a Sign - And the Pharisees and Sad′ducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and...
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15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
18 “And I tell you, you are Peter [Greek, Petros] and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death [Greek, gates of Hades] shall not prevail against it.
19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
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So whatever you fix, heal, change here on Earth …. Stays fixed, healed, changed, etc, in Heaven.
Sounds like a binary to me!
And in movies, I’ve certainly heard the phrase “Gates of Hell, as well as “The Keys to the Kingdom.”
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