Uhh, the “Church” can’t offer forgiveness.
If you are Catholic, and you believe otherwise, please quote scripture to prove that the Church CAN decide/offer forgiveness of sin.
2 wrongs not equal to 1 right.
That being said, please don’t think I am in any way advocating abortion - I think it is murder or an innocent. Note however, that there is no sin (other than rejection of God’s Son) that cannot be forgiven BY GOD.
Forgiveness from people, organizations, the Church, etc is not the same as forgiveness by God.
Thank you. I was wondering how long it would take for somebody to make that comment. (Not that I agree, but I knew somebody couldn’t resist)
BTW, for the record:
John 20:23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.
“please don’t think I am in any way advocating abortion - I think it is murder of an innocent.”
The word “abortion” doesn’t appear in Scripture. Sure, Psalm 139, “Before I formed you in the womb” from Jeremiah, and Elizabeth talking of the unborn John the Baptist leaping for joy in her womb when sanctified by the Christ Child in the womb of Mary, give us Scripture’s opinion on abortion. Nevertheless, the word “abortion” does not appear in Scripture. Some noble pagans before Christ condemned abortion as a violation of the natural law knowable by reason. But how did abortion come to be widely condemned over the centuries? It came to be condemned by the masses because of the Living Teaching Authority of the Church. Before the invention of the printing press, most people didn’t have access to the Scriptures in their homes but only at church.
When you say “I think it is murder”, aren’t you pointing out the bad fruit of relying solely on one’s personal interpretation of Scripture? Objective truth is questioned and begins to fade away and is replaced by “I” relativism. What happens next? We’re seeing it now with so-called gay marriage. Power and popular opinion are judged to be the arbiters of Truth. And increasingly, we’re on the losing side of that divide.