[x5452]

Its not that I don't buy it, I do but generally those brought up that 'confessing your sins to a man is some sort of evil pagan idea' I sort of need a brunt evidence.

[ShihanRob]

Its not that I don't buy it, I do but generally those brought up that 'confessing your sins to a man is some sort of evil pagan idea' I sort of need a brunt evidence.
The authorization is from Christ himself, where he tells Simon Peter, "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heavin, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." CCC 1444, Mt. 16:19
Rob

[magisterium]

We all know that you're Orthodox. Don't you confess your sins to the priest before the icon of Christ at the iconostasis? Certainly that's what we all did when I was attending the Melkite liturgy for years before I returned to my "roots" at the indult Tridentine Mass. It's my understanding that the Orthodox use John 20:23 in their theology of the sacrament just as the Catholics do. So nothing could be less "pagan," no?