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It is interesting to not that you lack the honesty to address the situation Sakajaweau presented.

Someone comes to her and confesses to a crime another person is scheduled to die for. You twist that and make her a death row priest hearing confessions from people already serving time.

By changing the situation she presented you are lying. You make the confessor she received less likely to have been forthright. The perfidy is not unnoticed.

All that aside, in her scenario the confessor is dead. That person is either with God, or in hell. Nothing she says now will change that in any way. They aren’t here. It doesn’t matter to them now, their deeds are finished.

You twist that and make her a death row priest hearing confessions from people already serving time.

No, you are the one who is doing the twisting. I'm simply saying that she, the confessional priest, is violating her oath of confidentiality or whatever it is, and can no longer be trusted. In exchange for what? A confession by someone who could very well be lying?

It is interesting to not that you lack the honesty to address the situation Sakajaweau presented.

If we were really honest we would say that the protestant position is to hypocritically use the law of exception (i.e., the law of love) found in situational ethics to reject an intrinsic and normative good that is the relieving of one's sinful burden and bringing them back into fellowship with Christ.

In other words, "Jesus for me but not for thee."

That person is either with God, or in hell.

Oh?

The Book seems to indicate that they are SLEEPING; awaiting the Last Trump.

Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.