Need bible translation

[Redbeard The Pink]

There are various schools of thought on what this passage means.

Some interpret it to mean that humans have the power to bind and loose spiritual entities (such as demons and angels) by using special prayers (or whatever) to engage in what they believe to be spiritual warfare. At best, this doctrine creates some hilarious prayer circles, and at worst it starves epileptic people to death during attempted exorcisms.

Some interpret it to mean that contracts and agreements made amongst christians will be honored and supported by Jehovah. In this interpretation, the word "bind" is used in the legal sense.

Still others think it means that god honors church-made rules and declarations and holds the church's constituents to these rules as if they were his own. This is also pretty much a legalistic sense of the word "bind."

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The 18th verse is applied to the church and no individual. To bind in this particular case is the judgement of the church guided by God's wisdom. To loose means to, as Drich said, is to forgive through God's wisdom. God would trust no one to decide what will happen to people or forgiveness of people without it being taught by Him, this is why we have the Bible and prayer, to know what God desires us to do in judgement. God would never allow bad decisions made on earth to be a part of His perfect eternal kingdom. Being able to have the personal relationship with God means God can work through many individuals (the Church) to teach us to honestly judge other Christians through His taught wisdom. God's teachings are so to speak black and white, so anyone delving into the gray may be wrong, that's why God uses the majority in the church to decide, it will eliminate those delving into the gray areas and hopefully they will learn from the experience.

I guess this is more than you wanted, but you asked a question that actually takes more than one verse to explain. There's much more to it than anyone has explained, we were trying to give you something less complicated. 

GC

Remember Hebrews 11:6.  A person has to believe that God actually exists since God has never shown any evidence that he does exist.  Consequently God is irrelevant.  Like all gods, he's imaginary.  He can't desire anything because he doesn't exist.  He can't teach anyone anything because he doesn't exist.  He has no teachings because he never existed.