Biblical Evidence for Catholicism: The Biblical, Primitive Papacy: St. Peter & the "Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven": Scholarly Opinion (Mostly Protestant)

[now available only in Chapter Fourteen of my book, Biblical Proofs for an Infallible Church and Papacy]

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

The Biblical, Primitive Papacy: St. Peter & the "Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven": Scholarly Opinion (Mostly Protestant)

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