“To those with disordered senses, that seems like a “work”. To those of us who know how good marzipan is, it’s a grace.”
No, it sounds like a totally unnecessary step. We, by scripture, need no other go between but Christ. I don’t need a priest to tell me I’ve done wrong and to do “penance” for it. I have the discernment to figure that out on my own through prayer and study of scripture. I’ve seen way too many “good” Catholics use and abuse the system.
*** I don’t need a priest to tell me I’ve done wrong and to do “penance” for it. I have the discernment to figure that out on my own through prayer and study of scripture.***
The same discernment that has given the rise to hundreds of thousands of different Protestant theologies?
AMEN!
If Catholics would only return to the Bible they could see for themselves Rome's anti-Scriptural doctrines, if God so wills.
Christ is who Catholics recieve forgiveness from as well.
I don’t need a priest to tell me I’ve done wrong and to do “penance” for it.
Nor do Catholics. It is not the priest that tells someone he has done wrong. It is the penitent condemning himself as having done wrong.
I have the discernment to figure that out on my own through prayer and study of scripture.
As do Catholics. An examination of conscience is made, using scripture as a guide.
It would appear that you and Catholicism are in accord.