I would be extremely grateful to hear an answer “Yes” or “No” to the following question:
Is God incapable of imparting to a man, His authority to forgive the sins of others and to withhold God’s forgiveness?
Certainly, just as God is able to give man the power to take life, but attempting to establish a doctrine based upon what God could do is another logical fallacy, which you specialize in.
And your doctrine is not that God gives man the power to bind or loose one in their sins, which is what the OT magisterium could judicially do in declaring one guilty or not guilty, with dissent being a capital crime, (Dt. 17:8-13) though they could be wrong.
Nor is that of corporately biding one in sin to be chastised and then dropping the charges, as in the case of the incestuous man of 1Co. 5. And which relates to Mt. 18. And in which case Paul said that if the church forgave that man so also would He as acting for Christ. (2Co. 2:10)
Nor is it that believers can obtain mercy for souls being judged due to sins, as in the case of the palsied man being forgiven and thus healed, (Mk. 2:1-7), and in confessing sins and praying to each other in general to be healed, and elders in the case of the infirm, (Ja. 5) as well as discerning and declaring one to be bound in sins, as Peter did with Simon (and who was told to pray to God to be forgiven: Acts 8:22-23)
But in contrast your doctrine is that believers must normally confess sins to your unscriptural priests in order to obtain forgiveness, which is nowhere seen in the life of the NT church, in which the only exhortation to confess sins toward others it toward other believers in general.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. (James 5:16-20) In addition, simply the power to
Still trying to get the ignorant to accept the old "if GOD can do it; it MUST have happened" ploy?