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The forgiveness of Sins
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Posted on 06/12/2015 6:18:39 AM PDT by ADSUM

All pardon for sins ultimately comes from Christ’s finished work on Calvary, but how is this pardon received by individuals? Did Christ leave us any means within the Church to take away sin? The Bible says he gave us two means.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Charismatic Christian; Ecumenism; Evangelical Christian; Theology
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid

I believe you are either confusing sanctification with justification, OR you believe justification must be obtained over and over and over, through confession. Which might it be?


41 posted on 06/12/2015 3:38:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: ADSUM; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; CynicalBear; daniel1212; Gamecock; ...
All pardon for sins ultimately comes from Christ’s finished work on Calvary, but how is this pardon received by individuals?

1 John 1:7-9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Just tell God. He'll take care of the rest.

42 posted on 06/12/2015 4:02:16 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ADSUM
So where you are going when you die if your sins are not forgiven?

Hell. But if God forgives you, they're forgiven so there's nothing to worry about.

43 posted on 06/12/2015 4:03:31 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Campion
He gave the power to forgive sins to the disciples after the resurrection; see John 20:23.

They all died so that even if He did the way Catholics claim, they're not around any more.

44 posted on 06/12/2015 4:06:10 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid; ealgeone

So does that mean God has to bend His will to mere men?

If they refuse to forgive someone, that person is screwed?


45 posted on 06/12/2015 4:07:15 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ADSUM
So where you are going when you die if your sins are not forgiven?

Hell.

46 posted on 06/12/2015 4:07:50 PM PDT by Mark17 (Through all my days, and then in Heaven above, my song will silence never, I'll worship Him forever)
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To: ADSUM; All
God forgives our sins as noted in the Words of Absolution said by the priest after the penitent confesses and says the Act of Contrition.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

 

1449 The formula of absolution used in the Latin Church expresses the essential elements of this sacrament: the Father of mercies is the source of all forgiveness. He effects the reconciliation of sinners through the Passover of his Son and the gift of his Spirit, through the prayer and ministry of the Church:

 

God, the Father of mercies,
through the death and the resurrection of his Son
has reconciled the world to himself
and sent the Holy Spirit among us
for the forgiveness of sins;
through the ministry of the Church
may God give you pardon and peace,
and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

 


47 posted on 06/12/2015 4:07:59 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid
Confession is the way Jesus wants sin to be forgiven here on earth.

Show us the place where Jesus taught us to go to confession to a Catholic priest. It would be interesting to see HIS prescribed method for doing this.

48 posted on 06/12/2015 4:10:39 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ADSUM
Cyprian writes that the forgiveness of sins can take place only "through the priests." Ambrose says "this right is given to priests only." Pope Leo I says absolution can be obtained only through the prayers of the priests.

Apostates of the highest order...

Is the Catholic who confesses his sins to a priest any better off than the non-Catholic who confesses directly to God? Yes. First, he seeks forgiveness the way Christ intended. Second, by confessing to a priest, the Catholic learns a lesson in humility, which is avoided when one confesses only through private prayer. Third, the Catholic receives sacramental graces the non-Catholic doesn’t get; through the sacrament of penance sins are forgiven and graces are obtained. Fourth, the Catholic is assured that his sins are forgiven; he does not have to rely on a subjective "feeling." Lastly, the Catholic can also obtain sound advice on avoiding sin in the future.

This is sick...

So while you Catholics claim that you can go directly to God in prayer, you are taught not to...WOW!!!

49 posted on 06/12/2015 4:12:20 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid; RnMomof7
If you break my window, I forgive you because I know you are truly sorry, but you still need to buy me a new window.

That's not forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not demanding the debt owed is paid, it is freeing the person from the debt.

What you are describing is justice, restitution for wrong done, NOT forgiveness.

50 posted on 06/12/2015 4:12:22 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid
I am not perfect and I do sin on occasion.

Everyone sins ALL THE TIME.

There's nobody who only sins occasionally. That shows an incredible depth of deception in the mind about level of sin in one's life.

51 posted on 06/12/2015 4:14:04 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RnMomof7

“You have given no posts were the apostles HEARD confessions and FORGAVE their sin...because there are none.”

Let me remind you of your own words:

1) “What is interesting is there is NO RECORD of the apostles ever hearing confessions..”

Yet I showed you an Apostle saying he forgave someone in 2 Cor 2:10.

2) “And there were no individual confessions in the early church either until 1214 ...”

I pointed out you couldn’t even get the date right for your incorrect conclusion.

3) “So it appears that neither the apostles nor the ECF thought they could “forgive sin””

Except that I showed there were ECFs that did write about private confessions.

“Not in the PLACE OF CHRIST..”

PERSON of Christ, not PLACE. Again, just like with “1214”, you make an error which suggests you don’t even really know what you’re attacking. http://www.ourladyofloreto.org/RCIA/03_DOCTRINES/in_persona_christi.pdf

Anti-Catholicism: lead paint chips for the Protestant mind.


52 posted on 06/12/2015 4:16:42 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Campion
It's the letter to the *Hebrews*, remember. It's talking about the Jewish Levitical priesthood.

So that allows your religion to invent its own priesthood???

You might want to note that while the Levitical priesthood was eliminated, NO ONE besides a Levite could be a priest..That disqualifies every Catholic priest that ever lived...

53 posted on 06/12/2015 4:17:51 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid
Doing the penance shows God that I truly am sorry and it is then erased from my soul. I receive a grace from God to know I am forgiven and that I truly want to live as He asks of me.

That's not what Scripture teaches.

Sin is erased for the asking. If it erased based on penance, then it is not grace but wages due for works performed.

Catholics don’t live in a world of fluffy clouds and rainbows thinking once saved always saved. Read any book about a saint, any approved apparition and you will read that Jesus hurts because of our sins, indifference, and non-belief. He asks for reparation for the sins committed by all. He does not just sit in heaven happy as a lark, he aches, thirsts for souls. He asks us to make reparation for our own sins and the sins of others, to think otherwise is just foolish. Our prayers, sacrifices and love help to bring solace to his breaking heart.

The security of the believer is a spiritual truth that God reveals to us in HIS word.

He does NOT ask us for reparations. We CANNOT pay for our sin because the wages of sin is DEATH and that is a debt that we CANNOT pay.

If righteousness came by the law, Christ died for nothing. Without the shedding of blood, there is NO remission of sin. NOTHING else can pay for sin, no matter how sincere, how profuse, how self-sacrificing. No penance, no reparation, no burning in purgatory, no work of any kind. Only death, the shedding of blood, can pay that debt.

We cannot make reparation for any sin of any other. We all answer for ourselves and ourselves alone.

54 posted on 06/12/2015 4:20:46 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ADSUM
So are you saying that when someone accepts God, then they do not commit sins after that time and thus there is no need to forgive these sins? How does one go from being a sinner to not being a sinner? Hoe does one achieve perfection in the eyes of the Lord?

When someone accepts CHRIST, they become the children of God, born into His family.

Nobody ever said that people don't sin after that. we all sin every day, but the record of our debt, all of it, was canceled in a judicial pardon by God.

We don't become perfect in this life but that doesn't matter. We're still God's child, still adopted into His family, and still saved.

The way we achieve perfection in the eyes of God is to accept Christ. We are then clothed in Him, and God sees the righteousness of Christ on us and sees us as perfect as Christ.

55 posted on 06/12/2015 4:24:33 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Salvation

Where did Jesus teach that *formula*?

Chapter and verse please.


56 posted on 06/12/2015 4:26:39 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Salvation

So if the priest says the magic words, God has to listen?


57 posted on 06/12/2015 4:27:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RnMomof7
...you still need burn time in purgatory for that "forgiven sin"...

I suspect, that for those people involved in works based religions, and there are lots of works based religions out there, I think their "burn time" might last just a tad longer than they anticipated, say an eternity longer than they anticipated.

58 posted on 06/12/2015 4:27:12 PM PDT by Mark17 (Through all my days, and then in Heaven above, my song will silence never, I'll worship Him forever)
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To: metmom

Sounds like catholic teaching on Mary.


59 posted on 06/12/2015 4:32:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Funny how many people God has to listen to in Catholicism.


60 posted on 06/12/2015 4:33:59 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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