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There is s lot to unpack there. So I think I'll just focus in on your interpretation of what "the keys to the Kingdom" were, given Peter.
As such is a prime example of men utilizing their carnal minds to interpret something heavenly or spiritual (which they are unable to understand) by tying together a number of assumptions, based loosely on God's ...
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It might be useful to supplement the above answers which primarily use a linguistic approach with a legal approach. Maimonides in his great code, Laws of Idolatry, Chapter 11, defines from a legal perspective all the terms used in Deut. 18:11. Paragraph 10 defines the Chover:
A person who utters nonsense-syllabuls as a means of averting some bad consequence ...
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The prophet הוֹשֵׁ֙עַ֙ Hoshea explained חֶבֶר "Chever" as a [Clever Band] of evildoers = "Gang" in Hoshea 6:9.
Hoshea הוֹשֵׁ֙עַ֙ | "Hosea" 6:9
And as a man gathers fish, so do bands; a [gang] of priests murder on the way in one group, for they devised a plot. ( וּכְחַכֵּ֨י אִ֜ישׁ גְּדוּדִ֗ים חֶבֶר כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים דֶּ֖רֶךְ ...
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The operative word here is H2266. chabar
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[חָבַר] verb unite (usually intransitive), be joined, tie a magic knot or spell, charm ...
1 unite, be joined ...
2 tie magic knots, charm
Deuteronomy 18:11
New International Version
or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
At https://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/...
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Ezekiel 36 25-27 explains the new birth.
How do we reciev it? Jesus gave and example of moses talking to nicodemus in john 3. He must be lifted up.
Numbers 21 9 tells us how to recieve the washing new birth. Just LOOK
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Yes. "Truly Truly" is used as an affirmation in [Nehemiah 8:6] "And Ezra blessed YHVH, The-Great God, and all the people answered, "Amen, Amen," with the uplifting of their hands, and they bent their heads and prostrated themselves to the Lord on their faces to the ground." ( וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ עֶזְרָ֔א אֶת־יְהֹוָ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים ...
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