No one is stupid enough to go to confession and confess to a crime. Confession was an invention. How it became a sacrament beats me.
It has an interesting history going back to the earliest days of the church. Mentioned in the Didache and by Clement of Rome. But I know you will not bother to look it up and educate yourself. Will you.
Confession is an invention?
How wrong.
Confession was the Sacrament that Christ gave to the apostles, saying, while he breathed on them, “Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; who sins you shall hold bound, they are held bound.”
http://biblehub.com/john/20-23.htm
Context
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
John 20: 22-23
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23”If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”
(My translation — but it’s in the Bible!)
“No one is stupid enough to go to confession and confess to a crime.”
Actually it happens all the time.
“Confession was an invention.”
By God, yes.
“How it became a sacrament beats me.”
Again, by God, John 20:19-23.
“No one is stupid enough to go to confession and confess to a crime.”
And you know this as fact. . .how?
“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “
If you or anyone else is interested, a good explanation of the history of the Sacrament of Reconciliation can be found here:
http://www.resurrection-catholic.org/learn/sacraments/reconciliation/history_reconciliation.pdf
The number of people who claim to believe in "Scripture Alone" and refuse to accept what Scripture says (even the Luther Subset of Scripture they've retained) is absolutely amazing.