[ealgeone]

Good gracious...do you not understand the concept the concept of Christ dying on the cross for our sins as a one time sacrifice??

by your thinking and cherry picking scripture, you must live in on-going doubt about your eternal future.

that is not what Christianity is about at all.

your point if I understood it correctly, is that if we don't confess every sin to a priest, they cannot be forgiven...right?

well then what was the point of Christ dying on the cross??

[Elsie]

Did you mean this for ME?

[terycarl]

your point if I understood it correctly, is that if we don't confess every sin to a priest, they cannot be forgiven...right? well then what was the point of Christ dying on the cross??

you really don't understand the Catholic church....every sin should be confessed to a priest, however most sins are forgiven because they are venial, or minor....bad language, minor lie, cursing...etc. Major sins can also be forgiven by a sincere act of contrition before you can get to confession.

the point of Christ and the cross was to actually forgive the sin....the priest forgives your sin through the power of Christ, he is a mediator and Christ forgives the sin. However, Christ promised the priest that whose sins the he would forgive, would be forgiven. If you confess your sin to a priest, and are SINCERELY sorry for it and try faithfully not to repeat the sin, Christ forgives it.

[terycarl]

Good gracious...do you not understand the concept the concept of Christ dying on the cross for our sins as a one time sacrifice??

are you seriously suggesting that no matter how you live your life, rape, mayhem, booze, domestic violence, murder, abortion, that all your sins are automatically forgiven??????????? You will find it very difficult to return to the Catholic church.....notice I said return, if you were legitimatly baptized, you were baptized a Catholic....nothing else is possible.