To: Springfield Reformer
Christ had not instituted the Sacrament of Confession at that time. He did it after His Resurrection.
908 posted on
01/16/2017 9:07:58 PM PST by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome)
To: ebb tide
Christ had not instituted the Sacrament of Confession at that time. He did it after His Resurrection.
According to the writer of Hebrews, it was the Old Covenant that required priestly intermediaries, but under the New Covenant we are supposed to go boldly before the throne of grace. So any denominational speculation that some more restrictive approach was secretly insitututed during the unrecorded post-ressurection teaching is necessarily false, and must be rejected.
Peace,
SR
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