For instance a person is terribly sick and you take that person to a spiritual home, then you are told the person has a confession to make after the confession the person dies. Why don't they live after the confession?
2007-03-24 00:40:26 · 2 answers · asked by ijepums 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I guess no one up there really cares.
I love what Voltaire was supposedly have said when they tried to give him confession:
"Do you renounce Satan?"
"Now now, this is hardly the time to start making enemies"
2007-03-24 00:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Confession is a spiritual and emotional healing, an unburdening of the soul by admitting guilt. It has nothing to do with healing of the physical body. I think you may be referencing the concept of last rites in Catholicism. At least in movies, the dying person is given last rights just before dying as more of a dramatic pretense than anything else. (I guess it makes for better drama if the person dies after confessing than if he/she lives!)
In reality, you do not have to be dying to receive Last Rites, and you can be given Last Rites only once.
2007-03-24 00:58:54 · answer #2 · answered by quazqlyo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋