Why are catholics still praying to the virgin and confessing to priests? You should maybe look into that as Jesus himself said it's idolatry and said confess your sins to no one but God In private and call no man “father” but God in heaven. Yet catholics still go around calling their priests “father”? That's just to name a couple things where the catholic church is completely wrong scripturally.
Do you deny that your church is controlled by homosexuals and pedophiles? Because I think that's been made plainly apparent in the last couple of decades.
The catholic church is nothing more than power and control over people and their money. People who are raised in it have no idea they're being duped because they have never really studied into it, but all the proof is there for anyone who is curious enough to look into it's history with an understanding of the New Testament. I've been studying into this for 40 yrs or so.
This is the last reply from me on this thread. I think I've made myself clear and don't wish to carry on an argument about it here.
Jesus said to PRAY in private. He wasn’t talking at that time about confessing sins.
Jesus said to the apostles: “Receive the Holy spirit. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them. Whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
These words of Jesus are absolute nonsense if people are not going to be confessing their sins to the apostles?. How can the apostles possibly forgive sins or retain sins IF THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE?
It is preposterous to believe that this function of forgiving sins was intended by Jesus to die with the apostles. If it died with the apostles, it would be irrational for St. John to even mention it.
So, you have just directly contradicted the words of Jesus.
"An enemy has done this."