[af_vet_1981]

Is it easier to say your sins are forgiven or rise up and walk ?

[Luircin]

The Son of Man has the power to forgive sins.

Which it seems that Catholicism doesn’t believe, considering that they still demand that sins be worked off in Purgatory.

[imardmd1]

They were, up to a point under the Law, when the counter goes back to zero, but then starts ticking again until the next Yom Kippur under the Law.

That is, until Jesus fulfills all righteousness under the Law, ends its rule over the Jews, and cries out concerning self-obedience in every point of the Law:

"It is finished, once and for all time"

>> Perfect tense, passive voice (= it, the living of a perfect sinless life until the moment of physical death), indicative mode) <<