[ealgeone]

Ask the Lord to lead you. You don’t have to do them all at once. Cover the Ten Commandments.

It's more than just the Ten Commandments if you're trying to keep the Law. You have to worry about all 614 Laws found in the OT.

When we converted, the very liberal parish we attended told us - ‘Just choose one sin; the priest is busy.’ !!! The ones you don’t confess that needed to be confessed will bubble up and you can chuck them next time around.

Fortunately, God has plenty of time to listen to us. Confess your sins straight to Him.

[boatbums]

It's more than just the Ten Commandments if you're trying to keep the Law. You have to worry about all 614 Laws found in the OT.

And, as Jesus showed, there is a spiritual and therefore deeper meaning to the Ten Commandments. For example, when the commandment to not commit adultery was given, it was presumed to imply the actual ACT of adultery, but Jesus said if we even look after a person not our spouse to lust after them, we have already committed adultery in our heart. So, rather than trying to go through a checklist of every time we broke one of the commandments, we should examine ourselves to see where we have wronged another person, where we have damaged our relationships with them, with ourselves and with our God. I really believe the Holy Spirit will bring conviction to our spirit of both how AND why we continue to mess up and give us the ability to effect the change He desires in our lives so that we bring glory and honor to Him.

Just telling a priest when we sin, without ever going to the person we might have wronged by our action, is a cop-out, to me. It's the easy way out and may help explain why we continue to repeat the same sins and never realize the victory over them.

[Campion]

It's more than just the Ten Commandments if you're trying to keep the Law. You have to worry about all 614 Laws found in the OT.

Christians aren't bound by the ceremonial provisions of the Mosaic Law. Haven't you read Romans?

We are bound by the moral provisions of the Mosaic Law, because they merely codify the natural law which binds all humans, whether they know it or not. Including you.

[bboop]

Are you saying you don’t bother with the Ten Commandments, then?? I don’t see them as equal, at all, to the OT laws.

[bboop]

I will say - Protestant/ Evangelical/ Holy Roller for 20 years, THEN converted to the Catholic Church. I love confession. I walk with the Lord. Those things are not mutually exclusive.