I too am thankful to God for the Sacrament of Confession.
This, to me, is an example of standing before men as a sinner to confess God, and this means something— it means by so doing that He will not deny me unto salvation.
It is much more UNcomfortable than going forward in a revival setting with a coliseum full of happy supporters, loud music, on an emotional high.
When someone uses the words, `to me’, in their explanation of salvation, I immediately know I’m talking with someone who has put their opinion above God’s word.
That was a diversion from the answering the questions i asked in response to posting texts that taken literally cannot mean what the literalism means. Perhaps you would be the first RC among all those asked previous to this who would forthrighty answer these