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Posted on 07/21/2015 4:48:44 PM PDT by Salvation
Catholic Ping!
Yes believe but belief means more than that even the demons believe and tremble To have the assurance of salvation one only needs to repent and ask Christ into their life Head knowledge will not save you. Only crying out to Christ, asking Him into your life and accepting His finished work on the cross as the payment for your sin will achieve your salvation He has done all the work, all we have to do is acknowledge our need and accept His grace freely offered
Living the Christian life does involve confession to Christ our high priest alone. We daily lay our sins and shortcomings at His feet, die to sin and Live as Christ He is all in all.
If you commit mortal sin, you need to repent, have faith, and go to confession.
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Exactly where in the Bible from Christ’s teachings do those words come from? Specifically mortal sin and confession.
Good and touching thoughts all...but Christ established, while He was here on Earth, the way that He wanted and expected it to be done....that was through the power and authority of the Catholic church. The "do it yourself" or follow the latest fad really doesn't get it done.
Your opinion My Bible says nothing about the Catholic Church or confessing to anyone but our great high priest It does say to die daily to sin and to live is Christ
You may belittle my beliefs based on the plain teaching of scripture, but it does not change things We have been through this before and have little common ground All we can do is to agree to disagree
I once asked a Catholic priest how I could be assured salvation and heaven. He stammered for a bit before saying, "Well, that is a Great Mystery."
Really? Where do you get that verse?
Mortal sin merely points out that there are serious and not so serious sins....cussing out your golf shot is not that serious an offense....committing adultery....remarriage after divorce for example, is a much more serious offense.
Confession was establishes as a Sacrament when Christ said "whose sins that you shall forgive, they are forgiven"...
“Mortal sin”? Chapter and verse, please.
God does not have a hierarchy of sins. More made-up stuff.
Jimmy Aiken is correct. I pray every morning for an increase in Charity. Aiken gives the Bible quotes.
Sin is sin Any deviation from Gods perfect will and law is enough to bring eternal death no matter how small. I don’t call the slightest sin that can do that any less serious than murder or blasphemy The penalty is the same Eternal death and separation from God and an eternity in hell
Thye answer is .... ASK ... Romans 10:13ff
Very true. There are continuous sins that are more grievous.
See 1 Cor 5
Exactly which book, chapter and verse is the above stated? Don't cite Catholic doctrine back to me, where *exactly* is it in the Bible?
Some sin may have more serious consequences to others in this life, but to God all sin is disobedience and has the same penalty, that is death.
It's the same God whose Law is broken so whether it's what we perceive as a little or big sin by human standards, doesn't matter.
Adam and Eve only ate a piece of fruit and it was enough to condemn them and the human race for ever.
It's enough that the sin is disobedience to God, not what the disobedience is.
The Commissioning of Peter and the Commissioning of all the Apostles, the first Bishops.
Remember, Jesus breathed on them (Holy Spirit), saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them, whose sins you bind will be held bound.”
The early Church Fathers, of course, were unanimous in teaching the reality of mortal sin. They had to embrace the doctrine of mortal sin precisely because they recognized not only the salvific power of baptism but also the damning power of certain serious sins. The Church taught that “baptism . . . now saves you” (1 Pet. 3:21; see the Catholic Answers tracts Baptismal Grace and Born of Water and the Spirit). However, since during the persecutions some baptized people denied Christ, and since Christ taught that “whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven” (Matt. 10:33), the Church Fathers recognized that it was possible to lose the grace of salvation after baptism.
In the Old Testament sin is set forth as an act of disobedience (Gen., ii, 16-17; iii, 11; Is., i, 2-4; Jer., ii, 32); as an insult to God (Num., xxvii, 14); as something detested and punished by God (Gen., iii, 14-19, Gen., iv, 9-16); as injurious to the sinner (Tob., xii, 10); to be expiated by penance (Ps. 1, 19). In the New Testament it is clearly taught in St. Paul that sin is a transgression of the law (Rom., ii, 23; v, 12-20); a servitude from which we are liberated by grace (Rom., vi, 16-18); a disobedience (Heb., ii, 2) punished by God (Heb., x, 26-31). St. John describes sin as an offense to God, a disorder of the will (John, xii, 43), an iniquity (I John, iii, 4-10). Christ in many of his utterances teaches the nature and extent of sin. He came to promulgate a new law more perfect than the old, which would extend to the ordering not only of external but also of internal acts to a degree unknown before, and, in His Sermon on the Mount, he condemns as sinful many acts which were judged honest and righteous by the doctors and teachers of the Old Law. He denounces in a special manner hypocrisy and scandal, infidelity and the sin against the Holy Ghost. In particular he teaches that sins come from the heart (Matt., xv, 19-20).
From Catholic Answers
From the article — oops — did you read it?
**And then we need to go to confession. This is something Jesus indicated just after he rose from the dead. He came to his disciples, breathed on them, and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained (John 20:22-23)**
They get it from a interpretation of Matt. 16:18,19. It has to be interpreted just a certain way to get their take on it because the texts themselves lend themselves to different permutations. Protestants see it differently, of course.
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