So what you’re saying is this — Christ gave his disciples authority to forgive sins and this authority died with them. So to follow your logic - all of the authority which Christ gave the disciples (healing, casting out of demons, preaching in his name) died with them. So where His church then? Was it just a one generation phenomenon?
Trying to put words in my posts that I have not posted is a sign of someone who is not honest. You are spewing in the spirit of antichrist. Run along.
The formula of absolution used in the Latin Church expresses the essential elements of this sacrament: The Father of mercies is the source of all forgiveness. He effects the reconciliation of sinners through the Passover of his Son and the gift of his Spirit, through the prayer and ministry of the Church:
God, the Father of mercies, through the death and the resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins; through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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So we know that when we partake of the Sacrament of Reconciliation that God forgives and forgets our sins.