This post is so idiotic – it’s difficult to know just WHERE to begin.
I’ll answer your first asinine remark above in RED for the end, because it points to the crux of your hypocrisy . . .
You’re not much of a student of Scripture, are you? Otherwise you would NEVER have made the ridiculous claim that the Church is not Authoritative even in matters of sin and forgiveness. Jesus gave the Apostles AND their successors (Acts 1:29) of His Church the power to FORGIVE or RETAIN sins in His name.
Yea, I have just been a preacher for 37 years, I am sure you being a Message Board Warrior are much more informed (SMILE). You might want to try to learn to be cordial to brothers first, until you can learn that discipline I am not sure you can grow in Christ very deeply. One must learn to tame their tongue before they can tame their minds and hearts.
No other man nor church can forgive sins, only God/Jesus/Holy Spirit. The thing you seem focused on is Jesus giving the Holy Spirit unto the Disciples in John 20::20-23.
There is no Acts 1:29. So, Jesus gave the "Holy Spirit" unto the Disciples and told them they could remit sins or retain them, but of course Jesus knew they listened to the Holy Spirit, so the Holy Spirit was going to be the one remitting sins or refusing to forgive. That seems to be missed by you !! Jesus was trying to demonstrate this new power of the Holy Spirit unto them. Because he was leaving, he wanted them to know they were not being left all alone, the Holy Spirit would operate just as he did and they could also operate that same way via the Holy Spirit
................VIA the Holy Spirit.............. not of themselves !! The Holy Spirit would give the final approval, they still had to listen to God !! But Jesus wanted a SHOW CAUSE so to speak, so that faith could be built upon in men's eyes.
Now, do you think those evil RCC leaders are full of the Holy Spirit LOL, come on man. They are mostly, or 80-90 percent of the flesh, the love everything over God, Politics, Lusts, Greed, the Love of men etc. more than they love God, don't kid yourself.
In John 20:21-23, Jesus (who is God) breathes on the Apostles as he is giving them this power:
John 20:21
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, SO I SEND YOU."
Ummmm, WHAT did the Father send the Son to do?
Answer: To bring about the FORGIVENESS of sin. In thus passage – HE sent THEM to do the SAME in His name.
John 20:22-23
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins YOU forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins YOU retain are retained."
The first is when he breathed life into Adam. The second is here in John’s Gospel when he is giving the Apostles the power to forgive or retain sins.
Well, you had the scriptures correct I see, I saw Acts 1:29 and there is no Acts 1:29 so it confused me.
The first is when he breathed life into Adam. The second is here in John’s Gospel when he is giving the Apostles the power to forgive or retain sins.
With regard to your drivel about “man-made” Traditions a above in RED – I have a question for YOU:
If the Catholic Church is “pure evil”, as you put it – why do YOU and every other anti-Catholic who claims to be Christian adhere to a CATHOLIC Tradition of the New Testament?
You guys even go so far as to claim it is your “SOLE Authority” – and trust its contents with your very salvation - even though it is by YOUR standards a “man-made” Tradition”
I would NEVER accept a text from a sect that was “pure evil” . . .
By the way, if you are Roman Catholic, I take up for them all the time, they took the Gospel unto all the world from 400-1400 AD, it is their leaders that are evil. The Pope is not the False Prophet nor is he the coming Anti-Christ, that is ignorance at its finest. The Anti-Christ has to be born in Greece(Dan. 8:9), via an Old Assyrian bloodline(Isaiah 10), and then he must come to power in the E.U.(Dan. 7:7-8).
The RCC [leaders] of the 1300s to 1800s were pure evil go read about them as I have, the Church of England was just as bad, torturing confessions out of people !! If you trust in the RCC to absolve your sins then you might not make it brother. Trust in Jesus alone, remember, Jesus needed to leave a STRONG Church in order to gain converts early on, thus he left men he himself discipled !! He knew them, he trusted them, I doubt very much he trusts or even knows 90 percent of the RCC leaders, now the Priests may have a higher rate of salvation, but I doubt 50 percent of the Priests are of God tbh. Pssttt, only 5 of the 10 Virgins make the Pre Trib Rapture !! So, only 50 percent of the Church are even "real Christians" who are of God. Only 33 percent (1/3) of the Jews will repent, narrow is the road sir, thinking you can just join a church (RCC or any Church) and be absolved of your sins by men is wrong think, and will led many people to hell via a false belief. THE DIFFERENCE? The Disciples followed the Holy Spirit, most RCC leaders have no idea what that actually means.
I do not doubt the people who are Roman Catholics, but they make a huge mistake, if like Nancy Pelosi or others they think they can push abortion and homosexuality and get absolved from their sins, that sir is a fantasy. We must REPENT and thus TURN from sin before Jesus will pardon our sins. That's a fact, no church can absolve you nor I from sins. Your RCC leaders are not the Apostles whom Jesus trusted heard the Holy Spirit, most would sell salvation to a rich man for a huge donation.