Their foolishness then only demonstrates your foolishness today in quoting them. The only response you make to my post is to nitpick the spelling? Again, why do you quote the scribes in defense of your doctrine?It was put in their (sic) to demonstrate thier (sic) foolishnessI agree! Their foolishness was in not realizing that Jesus was God!
Why do you falsely claim St. Mark said these things, when it was really the scribes?
These things should give you pause; instead you just mock spelling errors. The irony of the situation is that you accuse us of being legalistic.
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Untrue.
My response was that the Scribes knew that "only God could forgive sins", but could not understand that Jesus was God.
The normal Catholic response is that "only God can forgive sins, but God does it through a priest."
That is why I posted the incident from Acts where Peter refered Simon the Sorcerer directly to God for forgiveness. Simon them asked Peter to pray for him. Christians, like Peter, pray for each other all the time. There is not any indication that Peter gave Simon absolution, or assigned him the Rosary, or any number of Our Fathers to say.