is there another way to be forgiven for your sins other then confession?

Question

like if you pray to God for forgivness,will he still forgive you?or do you have to go to confession for forgiveness?

Answer 1

Let me make this perfectly clear: confessing to a priest DOES NOTHING. The apostles recommended confessing your sins, but not to an authority. They encouraged confession to one another, so that you could support one another.

The priest CANNOT forgive sins. GOD forgives sins.

Answer 2

Just ask for forgiveness. Why should you have to go to another person, who sins also, and tell them your sins? This person is to say you are forgiven? I don't think so hun. Just pray and ask for forgiveness and try not to do it again. I was a Catholic once and I went to confession. When I told him I had been molested he wanted details. I don't mean who did it and stuff. I mean where did they touch you and how many times. How far did they get and then blamed it on me said I let them touch me. I never went back. I think he was getting his jollies off by my confession. From then on if I had something to talk to God about, I prayed.

Answer 3

God has already taken away the sin of the world in Messiah. It was all placed on him at the cross. Confessing to God is the only way to obtain forgiveness. If however you have sinned against someone else, asking them for forgiveness would be another issue. Confessing your sins (and we all have them) to one another is the same as confessing before God since he is the silent partner in all gatherings of believers. Of course you must believe first that He loves you and has given you all the power to overcome and be made into the likeness of the Messiah.

Answer 4

I have a feeling you already know the answer to this! Just want to cause some thought on our part....but that's good. Under the old covenant (before Jesus) the people had to take their sin offering and confessions to the high priest and he would intercede on their behalf before God in the inner sanctum of the temple. When Jesus came, He died for sins. He became the sin offering AND the high priest taking the worlds sins before God. No longer do we have to go to a priest. Jesus took care of that. We go straight to God. The work done at the cross covers us.

Just whisper in your heart "sorry father" and He knows your heart. Ask Him to send the Holy Spirit to help you to not do whatever sin you were doing. There's no point in getting forgiveness if you know it'll continue.

Answer 5

Pray to God, He is the one who forgives sins. Man has no right to claim he can forgive sins. Confess to God, ask for His forgiveness, ask for His guidance to not sin again, and you shall be forgiven.

What a truly God!

Answer 6

Your sins will be forgiven if you are willing to admit that you are a sinner in need of redemption. God has provided us a way to Him by confessing belief in His Son, Jesus Christ, who died and shed his blood that our sins might be washed away. You must believe in the Blood. Christ was the perfect sacrifice to atone for our sins. Confess your sins and believe in Jesus and all sins will be washed away. Follow Christ and let the Holy Spirit make you into a new person secure in the promise of eternal salvation. Forgiveness of sins cannot be achieved without the belief that Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead.

Answer 7

You are forgiven when you are truly penitent.

Confession has two roles. First, you accept Christ as the medicine of your soul. He heals and the role of confession is to accept that healing. Jesus sent his apostles to heal others not for people to suddenly pray and then be healed. You won't find that occuring in the New Testament.

Second, it is a celebration of your return to God. You were like the prodigal son and now you are home. It is the Church's celebration of your return. You like the prodigal son feel shamed and embarrassed but it is the teaching of the Church that this is a cause for joy. It wants you to release your self loathing because that implies that you, God's creation, are not good even with the help of the indwelling Holy Spirit. We are unworthy of the promises of Christ, but the Spirit covers all that. Confession is a celebration as well as a healing. You are not forgiven for mechanically attending a confession, you are forgiven by letting Christ heal you and make you whole. The Church serves that healing role as His servant. He gave the apostles and their successors the power to bind and loose sin. He told them that whatever they bind on Earth is bound in Heaven and whatever they loose on Earth is loosed in Heaven. The job of the priest is to help you let God set you free, they loose you bonds and so they are loosed in Heaven.

This is the teaching of the earliest Church. I think people changed this idea because they don't really trust God. God entrusted forgiveness and healing to his Church's ministers. That is an awesome power to put into the hands of very imperfect mortals who they themselves sin. It was sixteen centuries into Christianity before people started changing this idea. It is sad because now many people lack access to basic healing. I think that is why so many groups have "revivals." There isn't enough depth of prayer to trust the Spirit to abide with us in those groups.

Answer 8

when you pray to be saved all sins are forgiven you should then strive to be as good as you can and just confess your sins to God He is the only who can forgive you

Answer 9

There is only one way to be forgiven of your sins. You have to ask God to forgive you, and to save you. Romans 10:9 - 10:10 King James Version says "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Answer 10

The bible says that Jesus is the only mediator between God and man, not a priest. Only the Catholic church promotes the confessional, not God. Pray and ask forgiveness and that is enough.