I’m not saying that at all. I just don’t believe that you have to talk to God through a Priest. Yes, I do believe the Bible.
For me, with Confession, I KNOW my sins are forgiven and forgotten by God. If I were to confess them straight to God, I would not know that.
There is a story of a guy who worked in a cubicle. He kept asking the guy in the next cubicle who was an inactive Catholic to go to Mass with him.
He asked again and again and again.
Finally the guy in the next cubicle relented and went to Mass with the Catholic guy.
While they were there the first guy noticed that the priest was hearing Confessions. He told his friend from the next cubicle that he was going to Confession and invited him to take part in the Sacrament also. But the visitor did not take this step.
On the way home they were in an auto accident and they both died. The guy from the next cubicle stood in front of Jesus and watched his whole life spin across a screen. Then he said, “How can you forgive all the sins I have committed?” Jesus replied, “You had that opportunity, tonight, sorry.”
Then the original Catholic stood in front of Jesus, watched his life in front of him and asked the same question, “How can you forgive all the sins I have committed?”
Jesus said, “I forgot your sins, go to heaven.”