“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “
Scripture is good. Thank you for posting some of it here.
Now it’s my turn:
“For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.”
Clearly, the author of that passage recognized his ongoing need for salvation. Not from humans or from the Roman Catholic Church, by the way, but from “Jesus Christ our Lord” (see Romans 7:25).