[Springfield Reformer]

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

[ebb tide]

So do you reject John, Chapter 20?

Yes or no.

[21] He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. [22] When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. [23] Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.

Pax,

ET