Your sins are never forgiven, unless you come to faith in Christ alone. No priest can forgive sin. Scripture does not say this. Nor does Scripture teach anything about a confessional. If you think yours are going to be forgiven without you humbling yourself before the Lord in the Sacrament of Confession or, at the very least, perfect contrition, then you are fatally deceiving yourself.
There is no "sacrament of confession." Made up. We have direct access to the Father to restore fellowship. Every sin is forgiven now for the believer. And do Christ’s words to Martha negate the parable of the Goats and the Sheep that if we do not do works of charity, we will not be saved?
It appears you really do not understand, do you? Do they negate John 6 where Our Lord says flat out “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life within you”?
The only thing negated is your interpretation of John 6. You really aren't supposed to interpret, are you?? YOPIOS and all that??
Do they negate Paul’s “fear and trembling” lest after he preaches to others, he may himself still be lost?
It appears you really can't get outside a verse and see context, can you Claud? You are basing your entire soteriology on one passage as if there weren’t any other. Christ’s words to Martha are part of the New Testament teaching on salvation, not the whole of it.
No. The entirety of the message to the Church is what we are basing it upon.
whose sin you shall forgive, they shall be forgiven, whose sins you shall retain, they are retained what do you suppose that means??????