***If the priest denies someone that is truly repentent, the Holy Spirit is not subordinate to the priest (rather vice versa) and presumably would forgive that person’s sin***
Then the priest is not necessary at all, just the HS.
***God spent the entire OT and most of the New trying to get the Chosen People to be saved and, generally speaking, He failed.***
God failed? GOD FAILED??????? What are you smoking? God doesn’t fail, God cannot fail. Everything God does is PERFECT!
INDEED.
The notion that God FAILED . . . is rather . . . off the wall, yet somehow expectable from a prissy magicsterical mangled, politically power mongeringly managed edifice that construes it-self as Jr God incarnate—at liberty to shove Christ aside in a list of blasphemous idolatrous ways.
Personally, I’ll take God’s ‘failures’ over man’s successes any day or night.