Start at John 20:22 and read through 20:23, and then tell me how you can say a priest cannot forgive sins?

Question

It is in black and white. Yes only God can forgive sins and it is the Holy Spirit that he breathed on them that forgives and this is passed down through the ages. Read it.

Answer 1

Absolutely! But then, you and I can, too. Right? And probably should! So are we paying the priest to do what we should be doing ourselves?

Answer 2

Imagine the Director-Head Doctor of a great hospital telling you, "Midge; as the receptionist I give you authority to admit the trully sick and hurt or refuse admittance to disease carriers who refuse treatment, but want access to other patients. But you must constantly read the hospital's Book of Instructions and be in constant contact with me."

The problem with the Papal priests is that they have falsely claimed to be the doctor themselves, operating on the sick at the receptionist's desk, handing out quack pills and potions in the lobby and refusing the Director-Head Doctor's actual authority, yet claiming to "act in the Hospital's name."

Luke 5:21 says "Who can forgive sins, by God alone?" The first part of the verse is saying that it was blasphemy because Jesus said that He forgave the man's sins. (in verse 20) They did not believe He was the Son of God and able to forgive sins because they thought He was just a man like them.

Answer 3

"Confession to a clergyman is a considered necessary area of the Sacrament of Penance: 'All mortal sins of which penitents after a diligent self-examination are wakeful ought to be reported by utilising them in confession, in spite of in the event that they're maximum secret and have been dedicated against the final 2 precepts of the Decalogue; for those sins each so often wound the soul greater grievously and are greater risky than those that are dedicated brazenly.' [Council Of Trent (1551): DS 1680 (ND 1626); cf. Ex 20:17; Mt 5:28.] while Christ's trustworthy attempt to admit all the sins that they could submit to in thoughts, they actual place all of them earlier the divine mercy for pardon. yet people who fail to realize this and knowingly withhold some, place not something earlier the divine goodness for remission for the time of the mediation of the priest, 'for if the sick individual is only too ashamed to instruct his wound to the physician, the medicine won't be able to heal what it would not be attentive to.' [Council of Trent (1551): DS 1680 (ND 1626); cf. St. Jerome, In Eccl.]" the present-day priest or minister has the God-given desirable to forgive men's sins or carry them certain for God. does not the Christian church have died out with the final apostle if those "presents from God" weren't surpassed directly to the contemporary-day clergy with the aid of Apostolic Succession?