Yes. I’d like to know if you believe if you don’t confess your sins to a priest does that disqualify you from Heaven?
Does it nullify believing Christ died on the cross for your sins?
I have to ask you....
Have you ever met Elsie before?
Or is this your first encounter with him?
I can answer this. It has three parts that can be easily distinquished.
Let's take the last part first...
1. Disqualified from Heaven: I've already posted what will keep you OUT of Heaven - not having your name found in the Book of LIFE.
2. Confess your sins to a priest: I've not found any where in Scripture that ONLY a 'priest' (as defined by Rome) can hear a confession - this thread has shown MANY examples of this.
3. Do I believe: Yes; I believe the things that I've posted.
If I've brought up anything in this reply you'd like my further expansion on; just let me know.
I'll be at LEAST more transparent that the Obama administration! (I hope!!)
This one is a little trickier, for it contains two parts, that are unrelated to one another:
1. Nullification
2. Christ died for my sins. (I'll leave the qualifier - on the cross - out of the equation).
So, to condense this down to a strawman, if you will: Can ANYTHING 'nullify' BELIEF?
I admit there may be things in life that just wears a person down and they just give up. * 1
Some will then make the CHOICE to say, "this believing in Jesus is bunk.", while others will cling the more tightly to His garment. * 2
* 1Matthew 13:7
* 2Luke 8:43-48
So my answer is that 'IT' will not automatically nullify anything.
If a person makes a wrong CHOICE; then they have BELIEVED in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:2
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
Do you SEE what saves you? what PUTS your name in the BOOK?
THIS GOSPEL!
No priests
No beads
No sacraments
No crossing yourself
No believing in the Assumption...
THIS gospel!
If you like your Salvation, you can keep your Salvation: PERIOD!