So what's this about continuing to repeat you've been sinned against?
Citing James 5:16 doesn't help much -- if one is confessing others sins committed against themselves --- unless it was yourself who slighted your wife and daughters? uh ...I didn't consider that possibility. Perhaps you can clear up just what this "slighting" you mention was more specifically all about.
Besides... you may not know how I as you put it --interpret -- that passage --- for I otherwise much recommend that we confess our sins to on another.
Yet at the same time it is also scriptural to confess one's sins to God, particularly those which be not committed against another person, but against God more directly.
Still, confessing our sins to one another (and that we have sinned against God, too) that we may be healed -- is right and proper.
What is less than fully scriptural, if you would take us towards delving into that further, is concept of all sins being needed to be confessed to a [Roman] Catholic priest (in good standing with that church?) or else we cannot be "forgiven" --- or possibly -- healed, either. But please take note that confessing to a priest is certainly not precluded or excluded.
Now since you made some public confession, and being that this then was followed by appeals towards legalism be applied to myself (and what you perceived or assumed be my own beliefs) should I then do much the same in return?
What then? Would you be then restricted to only gaining for yourself "healing" --- but according to legalisms within [Roman] Catholicism, and need to yet go elsewhere (other than we here present on FR) for "forgiveness"?
What gives? Just what was this offer to "slight" my own [wife and daughters] by asking if I would prefer you do that, all about?
How would that remedy in any manner that having done (as you have said it did) to your own?
Or would it be more simple to just forgive that person that "slighted" those dear to yourself?
good grief man - you are the one who underlined your.
Think about that - of course it was my wife who the heck would I be talking about.
and I said it in jest!
and all through Acts it is said time and again having met on the lords day we confessed our sins aid the blessing and ate the bread...
it is never found the exact quote we ‘confessed our sins to God’ it always says to one another or each other.
However, without the thorough Examination of Conscience and the an Act of Contrition and without that desire to avoid the sin it doesn’t count - it’s a whiff.
I think you analysis is a lot closer to traditional thought than many of your brethren.
btw the sacramental act of any person, priest or holy one is separated from any transgressions they may have made.... otherwise how could Peter’s evangelization have been efficacious after he essentially spit in Christ’s eye by directly denying Him - if the sin is not separated from the sinner after forgiveness, as common sense is still confirmed in faith.
AMDG