Your comment: “The number of unconfessed sins in our lives is irrelevant.”
That is just what Satan wants.
Christ dying on the cross open the Gates of Heaven if we can find the narrow gate and Keep His commandments. Christ did not forgive your future sins. We are required to repent, confess and do penance for our sins. Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation to restore us to friendship with God after confession for mortal sins. All baptized Catholics can and should make use of that forgiveness of sins.
You should read the life of many saints such as St Augustine that were serious sinners and came to the truth of the Catholic faith and through a process became holy. Even St Paul was a serious sinner.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God, commmitteth not sin: for His seed abideth in him, and he can not sin, because he is born of God.
what is born again? The spirit. Jesus told Nicodemus that one must be born from the water world, AND of the spirit in order to see the Kingdom. That Kingdom will have no sin therein. No mention of purgatory to cleanse the soul (behavior mechanism of mind will and emotions) and body.
Do you have a part of ADSUM that cannot sin ... not may not sin but CANNOT sin? When one is Born Again via the Spirit, their spirit is alive forever more because eternal life is abiding in their spirit ... soon to have a brand new body and behavior mechanism created in a supernatural event called The Departure in The Word of God.
“..and through a process became holy”..???
And right there Catholicism collapses. Those “processes” consist of all the traditions and man made doctrines the RCC deems essential to salvation.
God has only ONE process. The finished work of Christ for our salvation and reconciliation to Him.
Your “processes” are an ABOMINATION to a Holy God who sacrificed His only begotten Son so that you and I could be reconciled to Him.
Your church has made a complete mockery of salvation.
Are you so clueless?
Christ didn’t die so we could find the gate/the narrow way.
Christ *IS* the gate.
The way is narrow because it’s only by Jesus. There is no other way..
Christ did not forgive your future sins.
WhenJesus died for my sins, they were ALL future to Him.
And yesHe did because that hat that verse in Colossians is saying,p. When we come to Christ, the entire record of our sin debt was wiped clean because it was nailed to the cross and Christ’s atoning death, covered it all when God’s judgment for that entire sin debt fell on Jesus.
Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, not just the ones some manages to remember and confess. ALL of it is covered by His blood, whether a person chooses to avail themselves elves of it or not.
We are required to repent, confess and do penance for our sins. Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation to restore us to friendship with God after confession for mortal sins.
Only by the Catholic religion, not by God.
God just requires faith, IOW believing Him and taking Him at His word.
“ Christ did not forgive your future sins.
I can’t speak for you or others, but Christ died for all sins for those that entrust themselves to Him for salvation.
Every sin is already forgiven. The believer is sealed, baptized into the Body of Christ, indwelt by the Spirit, and is imputed with the righteousness of Christ.
And THAT ladies and germs is how we know the gospel of Roman Catholicism is an accursed gospel.