Your questions are answered in the article. First of all, Jesus talked about people who sin going to Hell. That's what "mortal sin" IS--the kind of sin that causes people to go to Hell. So, there's "mortal sin" right there in the teaching of Jesus.
About confession:
And then we need to go to confession. This is something Jesus indicated just after he rose from the dead. He came to his disciples, breathed on them, and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (John 20:22-23)
So Jesus empowered his ministers to forgive or retain sins. In order for a priest to know whether he is to forgive or retain a sin, he needs to know about the sin and whether we have repented of it. That means we need to go and tell him these things, and so we have the sacrament of confession.
See? Both "mortal sin" and "confession" are contained in the teaching of Jesus.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
since everyone dies...
Jesus said that to look on a woman with lust was to have committed adultery in your heart with her. And that hating was equivalent to murder.
He made no distinction between *big* sins or *little* sins.
On the contrary, James tells us that if we've broken one law, we're guilty of all. ALL sin is disobeying the God who gave us the law. It's law breaking and it makes no difference if we think it's a *biggie* or not.
First of all, Jesus talked about people who sin going to Hell. That’s what “mortal sin” IS—the kind of sin that causes people to go to Hell.
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I read the article.
Is there a kind of sin that doesn’t send you to hell? And specifically where in the New Testament does Jesus differentiate?