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I for one, do not blame Peter. He learned his lesson with Christ. He knew the power of God and preached it well enough. But men have a way of seeking their own glory. After all Jesus' woes to the hypocrisies of the priests...you would have thought that the last thing the church fathers would do...

Something like that.

You are mistaken. "No one comes to the Father except through Me." "Entering in" is indeed the topic, and "the keys to the kingdom" is "the spirit of God" - which you have left out...by choosing a man instead of the spirit of God. Jesus did tell Peter the power of the spirit of God to "loose"...

You never heard me the first time, but again - I wouldn't know about Protestantism. I also wasn't referring to the canon, but rather to the little fish, whom you all have made bigger over time. But the non-contradictory, plausible alternative is neither catholic or protestant, but by the...

I wouldn't know about Protestantism, but I do know that if you trace back all wild fish stories...the fish is actually very small.

Yes, that is true - offering you a man or the spirit of God is "no cohesive alternative explanation" to you. Nonetheless, those were and are the choices. You have no case.

Yes, but nonetheless, they are one...under the same covenant - not an "other." Look not to the flesh only, but also, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

The two folds that you refer to regarding Israel, are one house, not two folds. But there is indeed a fold of the flesh, and a fold of the spirit, the dead and the living, which is undeniable whether or not you believe it.

Here are a few: Luke 13:22-30 22 And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?” And He said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter...

That is blaspheme. You speak of the keys of entering the kingdom of God: No one comes to the Father except through Christ the Son.

The condition is Life, which we receive through Christ, being born again of the spirit of God.

Most of that is true according to the scriptures. No, indeed the law continues as long as there are those who are not born of God...but those who are born of God are not part of it. But do not misunderstand, the flesh continues in sin unto death, but the spirit continues in life: He must...

I should think that would be like blaming a terminally ill person for things they say and do on the way to the grave.

What is missing from your interpretation, is accounting for "the dead" and "the living" "in Christ", which are the two folds, the descendants of the first Adam, and the descendants of the Last Adam. ...And being born again of the spirit of God...it is not I who speaks, but the spirit of Christ.

David's kingdom was given to Him (meaning Christ the Son)...not any others. The earthly kingdom, was Christ (not Peter) overcoming the world...but it is not of "this" world.

The law is against sin which leads unto death. In death the law is satisfied and we are free from it: Romans 7:1-6 1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the...

You raise a good point worth clarifying, that being the idea that we continue to sin even after coming under the love of Christ (against which there is no law). It is important to receive from the scriptures, that we, if we are born again of the spirit of God, have two natures: one natural and...

Read slowly... If you will honestly consider all of what you have quoted, you will see that all those things were accomplished at His first coming (when He fed them: Ezekiel 34:23). Then...couple (fold) that truth with "the dead" and "the living" "in Christ", whom He "brings"...and you will...

Correct...but that is only half right: Matthew 15:24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” John 10:16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and...

Indeed. First the natural (flesh), and then the spiritual: A time, times, and half a time.