I am Catholic because I believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord and my Savior. He did not found two churches, He founded one. I am there. Not going anywhere.
The reason for the seal of confession is simple: if the priest snitches, no one would be going to confession and be cleansed of his sin. So, yes, Jesus wants it.
“The reason for the seal of confession is simple: if the priest snitches, no one would be going to confession and be cleansed of his sin. So, yes, Jesus wants it.”
Where exactly did he say that? Chapter and Verse if you’re able.
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And now we are back to the beginning.
You still have yet to prove that Jesus meant the modern day organization calling itself Roman Catholic.
Yes, the people might stop going to confession. That may or may not be good, depending on your point of view. I remember when I was a catholic, I was going to confession one day, and confessing some quite racy sins. The priest started asking some probing questions. I thought he was getting his jollies, so I lied to him about it. Never again did I EVER confess my racy sins, so it had the same affect, as if the priest snitched.
I wanted to know if it’s still true, that Catholics need a priest, to interpret scripture for them? Another thing. There isn’t a Free Republic thread, that’s ever been throd (I just invented a new word 😁) where every post has been right on the topic. This thread is no exception.
The church that Jesus founded actually didn't get very large...Jesus started his church with the Hebrews...God's chosen people were the Hebrew nation and they rejected God thru-out most of their history...Jesus as the Son of God was sent to the same bunch with a different plan...
And we can see where that church was pretty small since it was Peter who was commissioned to preach to the Hebrews and after Peter was given that commission, Peter faded off into history...
And the fact that Jesus blinded the minds of those Hebrews when it came to Jesus' next church building program,
Rom 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Rom 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
shows that that church would stay small...
The Church does not go by what is and what is not in the Holy Scripture; the Holy Scripture is itself the product of the Catholic Church.
It's perfectly understandable why Catholics do not go by what is and what isn't in the Holy Scriptures...The Holy Scriptures that your Church purports to be the author of illegitimizes the Catholic Church...
The big church; the all inclusive church of all nations; the church as we know it today was started by Paul the apostle thru Jesus...
GOD forgives sin if asked. HE promised that he would.
NOBODY needs a priest to do it for God.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And it is a great one; too!
"Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."