[MHGinTN]

Catholiciism ... always comes down to searching for an escape clause. You MUST be born again, in this life. God does the work on your thereafter ... so that you cannot boast of your earning ANYTHING.

Until you comprehend that TRUTH, you will continue in the religion of ca5tholiciism to 'strive for salvation' and fail. Striving means trying to earn. YOU CANNOT EARN GOD's Grace!

ONLY GOD can forgive sin and there is no priest on this earth equal to the Great High Priest in Heaven, so there is no earthly priest who has the authority on earth to forgive sin or to tell GOD what sin HE must forgive.

[DuncanWaring]

So you’re disputing the black-and-white text of John 20:23?

“Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”