Yes, Jesus during His life healed the sick and forgave sins as Jesus determined that they sought forgiveness and had faith in Jesus.
Yet Jesus delegated to the Apostles and their successors: to preach and baptize and to forgive sins.
So you and I need to follow the teachings of Jesus to be saved. We shouldn’t only rely on what he did for others, as we are individually judged at the time of our death.
Baptism is the essential acceptance of God’s sacrifice and promise of salvation. Confession to a Catholic priest remits sins after Baptism. Jesus told us that the Eucharist is essential to our spiritual lives and necessary for salvation and with the graces we receive from the sacraments, we grow in our spiritual lives to become one in Christ.
Yes, salvation and opening the gates of Heaven was Christ’s sacrifice and His gifts to mankind. Jesus does not force salvation on anyone. We must accept it through Baptism (it is in the Bible) and acceptance of the teachings of Jesus.
If you read John chapter 6, you will see that many did not accept eating the Body and Blood of Jesus that Jesus told us was essential for salvation.
God’s peace be with you and the Truth.
There are many people who have never been introduced to the New Testament, who still exercise belief through faith in the Son of God who receive salvation. All the Old Testament saints and many missionary evangelists who begin their ministry through the Old Testament manifest believers who accept Christ prior to study of the New Testament. Same person, Christ as the Perfect Sacrifice, is through whom we all have access to the Father.
Not to God the Father. The only mediator between God the Father and the believer is God the Son. One might seek recompense for our sins amongst whom we have caused harm by our sin.
Remission of sin by God is turning away from sin and facing back to God, then confessing our sins to God the Father, through faith in what Christ provided on the Cross, the Perfect Sacrifice, and expiation for ALL human sin, past, present, and future,...this is the method to return to fellowship with God on His grounds.
Confession to a Roman Catholic Priest is NOT confession to God the Father, but is a counterfeit substitute for faith in what Christ provided at the Cross. RCC confession through a RCC priest is generally AntiChristian.
This is manifest by a large number of Roman Catholics who adamently attend their confessionals, but continue to wallow in bitterness and spiritual degeneration by never returning to God through faith in Christ, but turn instead to a counterfeit substitute system of blasphemy, pretending to religiously be associated with Christ, but performing all sorts of blasphemous practice.
Well I never accepted Jesus through Baptism nor because of his teachings. I accepted Him entirely through His message of Salvation through His ‘finished’ work........ “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”.....as the Bible clearly states....it’s His ‘gift’ of salvation.
We know that the New Testament covenant is one of grace and it’s unconditional... we receive Gods mercy and blessings not because of anything we do but because of what Christ did..... As believers in the New T. Covenant ‘we operate under grace’ by which good works ‘are a result’ of salvation. Grace finds it source in the giver who is God.