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Only God can reconcile you. Forgiveness comes from God not the Priest. Christ said go and sin no more. Thats it. Even when he forgave sins he said your sins are forgiven without even asking the person to rattle them off in a stupid confessional box. You can have a direct relationship with God this very moment. You don't need a priest.

He also said this, "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained." John 20:23

Now you and I can disagree till the cows come home that this indicates that Jesus gave the power to forgive sins to His Apostles, but it won't be very fruitful, as it will degrade into a "Scripture war" which usually happens in Protestant circles.

Fortunately (for me), I have faith in a Church that's not only a great place to go to on Sunday, but I also have faith that this very same Church has the power to discern what Scripture REALLY says, through its (the Church's) own teaching, a teaching ability granted by the Holy Spirit.

Again that's my faith. I honestly don't know how Protestants live without a Magisterium, as without such, "Scripture wars" invariably result.

Lets not forget that we are all Christians and ought not to emphasize our differences or claim to be superior to each other.Unfortuantely, the Catholic Church has been the one that excommuncates those that disagree with it. Luther did you guys a favor by challenging church authority. It was then that the Catholic Church tried to clean up its act. If it did not it would have faded into oblivion.

I honestly don't know how Protestants live without a Magisterium....

It's EASY!!

NIV 1 Corinthians 2:12-13
12. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words

NIV 2 Corinthians 1:13-14
13. For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14. as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.