Your opinion My Bible says nothing about the Catholic Church or confessing to anyone but our great high priest It does say to die daily to sin and to live is Christ
You may belittle my beliefs based on the plain teaching of scripture, but it does not change things We have been through this before and have little common ground All we can do is to agree to disagree
That is the trouble with Jimmy Akin and the others like him. Who cares if it is “thoroughly Biblical”? These lay psuedo-theologians with blogs are so eager to please protestants they don’t “preach” from a Catholic viewpoint. It is not necessary to “prove” something is specifically Biblical to establish if it is true. The Catholic Church is not founded upon the Bible as a written historical document with some nice platitudes and good advice. It is founded upon the person of Christ himself.