aka Ash
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I have neither the time noe the patience to answer you're whole post, Wishanem. But I will reply to one of the statements.
Confessing you're sins is not unBiblcal, the Roman Catholic act of Confession is.
Confession is confessing you're sins to a priest so that he may absolve you of them and assign you a penance. That is unBiblical. "There is only one mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus." The priest dose not have the athourity to absolve you of you're sins or give you penance.
I was raised Roman Catholic. Do I believe everything they teach? No...big NO...Are they a cult? LOL...no (the biggest cult the world has ever known...right?) but does that make them wrong? *shrugs* who am I to judge. Confession...unbiblical?ummm.
James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
a priest does have the power to pray as a righteous man for you, with you, or however. He is just stating that you will be forgiven. He tells you to do penance to get you praying instead of playing.
What he does is no different than the Baptist Minister telling you that you are saved because you confessed Jesus is your savior, or the Pentecostal Minister telling you that you are miraculously healed, etc. They are speaking faith into something that only God can do. The Priest saying you will be forgiven, now go pray is faith.
even if it was "unbiblical", it wouldn't hurt anything. The bible doesn't say to eat 3 meals a day, but we do that. SO what is wrong with confessing your sins to another man? One that can help you pray? Don't we ask for prayer all the time?
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