Pursuing Biblical Christianity

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God Forgives Sins and We Forgive Others

Post author By Peter DeHaan
Post date February 14, 2012

Jesus’ teaching on binding and loosing is a bit perplexing and worthy of careful contemplation. A parallel passage talks about forgiving sin and is even more disconcerting. Jesus says that if we forgive someone’s sins, they will be forgiven; conversely, if we don’t forgive someone’s sins, they will not be forgiven. That is an even […]

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Bible Insights

The Art of Binding and Loosing

Post author By Peter DeHaan
Post date February 9, 2012

In the post about the easy yoke, we learned that a yoke was essentially a Rabbi’s teaching, of what was prohibited and what was allowed. Jesus had his own yoke and he said it was easy. The process of ascertaining what things where to be prohibited, was the act of binding. To “bind” something, was […]

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