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Why do it every day? Is not the blood of Christ sufficient to erase all sins past present and future? Can one lose grace and salvation? I was washed in the blood of Christ when I came to him with a broken heart, on bent knee. When Christ said on the cross “it is finished” He mean’t just that, his blood paid the price forever for those who shall receive it.

So, it doesn't matter how you live from now on, you are saved and will go to heaven. Is that right?
I was taught that we are sinners. We sin a lot. I try not to, but I do. How can one be saved when one continues to sin? One sins again and again and one must be forgiven again and again. It's not a "one-shot, does all" kind of grace.

Where does it say that ALL sins are washed away, past, present and future with just saying "I BELIEVE!" just once and that's it? Wow. That's easy. One sentence of belief and one is saved NO MATTER WHAT ONE DOES in the future.

So, you are saved and if you commit murder tomorrow, that's okay because you are still saved. If that's so, then why be good in the future when you are saved NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO because of what you said in that past about believing and being "washed" in Christ's blood? Makes NO sense to me, but then, I'm a Catholic.

Jesus gave the apostles the authority to forgive sins in His name: whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven; whose sins you shall retain they are retained. Thus we/I go to confession for the absolution Jesus promised us.
THEN we go to communion to eat of His Body. NO HUMAN I know is "good to go" after just ONE washing NO MATTER what s/he does in the future. Makes no sense to me. But then, I'm Catholic.

You Protestants get to interpret the Scripture ANY WAY YOU WANT so it's no surprise that there were/are over 40,000 different denominations of Protestantism. You can believe whatever YOU want as to what the Scripture means...interpretation du jour as YOU like and YOU see it, whatever YOU want it to mean. We Catholics have it interpreted for us by the Church through the last 2000 years of existence.

I'm going with the 2000-year-old Church, not the ones founded after Father Martin Luther started the ball rolling with the next 40,000+ Protestant denominations of Christianity.

I don't really believe that Jesus intended there to be 40,000+ different denominations of Christianity. That is just MY opinion.

I will make a point to look you up after we are both dead. We can compare notes.

So what you are saying is a priest has the power to retain sin? How can a sinner forgive sin in the first place? If you believe in Christ you are saved for eternity.

God said he does not change, then why has the Catholic Church changed its position many many times?