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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Then read and understand the Bible, so you don’t sound so uninformed and make false statements.


18 posted on 08/14/2018 5:36:05 PM PDT by ADSUM
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To: ADSUM

I read the Bible and know what you asserted is false.


19 posted on 08/14/2018 5:36:45 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: ADSUM; aMorePerfectUnion
Then read and understand the Bible, so you don’t sound so uninformed and make false statements.

Show us where the procedures Catholicism has established for confession and forgiveness have been set forth in Scripture, like the need for the confessional, the formula the priest recites to forgive the sin, the criteria for establishing penance, etc.

All I see in Scripture about confession besides 1 John 1:9 is this.....

Luke 18:9-14 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

That tax collector didn't follow any of the usual Catholic procedures and yet JESUS declared him justified.

50 posted on 08/14/2018 8:40:27 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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