Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: terycarl
How about whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven, whose sins you shall retain, they are retained..........what do you imagine that Christ was talking about??? it explains the Sacrament of reconciliation EXACTLY....

No it doesn't because sherry picking a phrase out of context to support a doctrine is a tactic of the enemy. Take some Scripture out of context and make a doctrine out of it by adding a little bit of the truth with a whole bunch of lie.

There's no where in Scripture that gives any man the authority to forgive sins on God's behalf. We can only forgive what has been sinned against us. We can't forgive a person for their sins against another.

1,766 posted on 10/15/2014 11:57:18 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1442 | View Replies ]


To: metmom
There's no where in Scripture that gives any man the authority to forgive sins on God's behalf. We can only forgive what has been sinned against us. We can't forgive a person for their sins against another.

what, then, did Christ mean when He empowered the Apostles to forgive sins....He said"whose sins YOU shall forgive, they are forgiven"....was He kidding, leading them on???/Of course we can't forgive others sins, but the church has the aauthority do so and the phrase I posted gives her that authority....you can't just ignore the obvious (It was hard being a Catholic, wasn't it!)

1,988 posted on 10/16/2014 5:05:09 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1766 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson