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Don't know what you're talking about. If the Bible says for us to confess our sins one to another, it doesn't say to go to some priest or whatever or whoever ... we confess our sins to God and He forgives ...we acknowledge our sins to fellow Christians. BTW - what is the definition of sin anyway? Who decides outside of the Bible's definition what sin is? To Jews, sin means simply you could have done good for God but didn't ...

141 posted on 06/20/2009 7:58:27 AM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)

we acknowledge our sins to fellow Christians

Do you acknowledge your sins to your fellow Christians? Be honest now.

When I was an Evangelical Christian, before my conversion to Catholicism, NO ONE EVER CONFESSED THEIR SINS at my Church. Never happened.

143 posted on 06/20/2009 9:06:33 AM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))

BTW - what is the definition of sin anyway?

You don't believe there are objective moral truths?

Sin is an offence against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbour caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It has been defined by St Augustine as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law."

Sin is an offence against God. Sin sets itself against God's love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become "like gods," knowing and determining good and evil. Sin is thus "love of oneself even to the contempt of God."

145 posted on 06/20/2009 9:20:48 AM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))