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To: GoLightly
Matthew 18:17-18, right?

No, John 20:22-23.

And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

239 posted on 06/20/2007 8:26:21 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

That is a very powerful passage, but there is no support for that Act of God being transferable from one man to another man. One would think that kind of "breathed" would have gotten at least one mention in Scripture after that singular event. It's not even known whether or not +Thomas was ever breathed on.

241 posted on 06/20/2007 8:54:35 AM PDT by GoLightly
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