Authority From Peter

The Catholic church makes a big doctrinal mistake in claiming authority to change Peter and the other apostles commands or examples. They claim the authority of Peter to dictate Church doctrine was passed to them in a succession of Popes and Bishops.

The problem is that the right to bind and loose as given to Peter and the apostles would actually forbid later Church leaders from changing apostolic commands or examples. Whatever Peter bound would be bound and could not be changed or overturned. 

An example would be celibacy, Peter lived out the example that elders could be married. We also know from history that celibacy rules were changed after the apostles had passed. The Catholic hierarchy modified rules for Bishops or the same office is elder. We know from Bible history that Bishop and Elder were the same office but it slowly changed to mean different offices. Then, of course, Church fathers wrote to sustain these changes. They did this with the word saints as well, originally the word saints included all saints but it was changed to mean a holy moral hierarchy of the church. John Chrysostom mentions this change in his commentary on Ephesians.

The point is the Catholic church accepted changes in the meaning of words and concepts. They had no authority to morph the meanings of words.

Catholic authority theory is actually backwards from Christ's directive of binding and loosing given from Christ to Peter. It is like Satan took what Christ taught and flipped it on its head, backwards from Christ.

In this area of doctrine they are anti-Christ or against Christ.

The phrase should be the authority of Peter to bind, not the authority from Peter to bind.