>>>no such thing as absolution of sin<<<
Take this for example. You’ve not bothered to represent what Catholic teaching is. You’ve placed a term out into space which can easily be interpreted into ANYTHING.
It is therefore just a soundbite to bait someone with an axe to grind. A Catholic might as well just call you Nestorians and or Gnostics and possibly not even Christian (If you don’t practice the sacrament of baptism). None of those before mentioned words, without a context, have the power to convince. Given the likelihood of convincing anyone on the internet, that’s going to be rare.
But you’re just troll baiting anyway. Your words are just those of a scoffer, which scripture tells people not to pay attention to anyway.
Well, I certainly do not mean to "scoff" (whatever you mean by that odd term). I certainly do mean to expose the errant teaching of the cult-like organization call the "RCC". So much error exists in it that if there are elect among that body, it is in spite of the teaching, not because of it.
Someday you may wish to read the entire epistle to the Romans and notice how Paul decodes the Scriptural story line into a unified message of grace. Your "works" oriented organization (utilizing absolution of sin, sacerdotalism, purgatory, indulgences, paternosters, genuflecting, crossing oneself, candles, icons, etc.) simply does not understand what he is getting at.
Ask metmom (who escaped the clutches of Rome) to describe the wonder and joy of experiencing the grace of Jesus, alone. It is possible to be found in Him, not having a righteousness of your own, but of His.
This is, again, not scoffing but offering you a correction of the misunderstanding your organization has been delivering for many years. My job is to gently offer this and wait to see if God grants you a change of mind. II Tim. 2:24ff.
and you reply with a long, drawn out red herring instead of saying, yes, the Bible does indeed teach the absolution of sins and here are the Scripture verses to prove it.......