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To: RobbyS
Priests are not keeping anyone out of heaven. True contrition is required for absolution. Even if the penitent is wrongly denied absolution by the priest, the penitent can appeal to heaven.

Where is that in your catechism??? I've been led to believe that your priests while in the confessional are actually God speaking...

262 posted on 01/07/2013 8:13:40 AM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
"I've been led to believe that your priests while in the confessional are actually God speaking... "

It sounds like you do not believe that God often chooses imperfect, weak, and frail humans as instruments to communicate for Him.

Not one single book in the Bible (Old Testament or New Testament) was physically written by Jesus, or was even written during the years that Jesus Christ walked on this Earth in His humanity.

Do you believe that God, in God's infinite wisdom and power, chose an imperfect, weak, and frail human being to be the instrument to communicate for God by writing the "Gospel of Matthew", rather than just God physically writing it directly Himself?

Do you believe that God, in God's infinite wisdom and power, chose an imperfect, weak, and frail human being to be the instrument to communicate for God by writing the "Gospel of Mark", rather than God just physically writing it directly Himself?

Do you believe that God, in God's infinite wisdom and power, chose an imperfect, weak, and frail human being to be the instrument to communicate for God by writing the "Gospel of Luke", rather than God just physically writing it directly Himself?

Do you believe that God, in God's infinite wisdom and power, chose an imperfect, weak, and frail human being to be the instrument to communicate for God by writing the "Gospel of John", rather than God just physically writing it directly Himself?

Do you believe that God, in God's infinite wisdom and power, chose imperfect, weak, and frail human beings to be the instruments to communicate for God by writing the Epistles and all the other Books of the New Testament, rather than God just physically writing them directly Himself?

Do you believe that God, in God's infinite wisdom and power, chose imperfect, weak, and frail human beings to be the instruments to communicate for God by writing the all the Books of the Old Testament, rather than God just physically writing them directly Himself?

In other words, God could have chosen to physically write the whole Bible directly Himself, without the assistance of any human whatsoever, but instead, God chose, in God's infinite power. wisdom, and Sovereign Holy Will, to use imperfect, weak, frail human beings as instruments to communicate for God, in EVERY SINGLE Book in the Bible, both the Old Testament, and New Testament.    Not one single Book in the Bible was written without God making use of some human being, as an instrument to communicate for God by physically writing that Book (NO EXCEPTIONS).

Now, seriously, does that sound like a God who does NOT choose quite often to communicate through imperfect, weak, frail human instruments?   (Please consider that question honestly, carefully, and prayerfully in your heart (for your own sake), after all the contentious discussion is completely finished on this thread.)

317 posted on 01/07/2013 6:52:33 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("The Church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15))
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