Surely he is not without sin??? Isnt it God who should forgive you. So if I blaspheme against the holy ghost(unpardonable sin) and I ask for forgiveness will God forgive me???Im not being nasty
2007-05-09 02:07:02 · 8 answers · asked by Purplemarshmellow 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus Christ is the only middle man between God & man. Catholic priests are trying to take the place of Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 "Jesus said to him (Thomas), "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one coes to the father except through Me."
As for blaspheming the Holy Spirit, Luke 12 :10 "And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven."
2007-05-09 02:53:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is God who forgives us. But God has the right to forgive us any way He wishes, does He not? Scripture describes the way God has chosen to forgive us. Jesus breathed upon the apostles, the first priests of His Church, indicating a special annointing and special empowerment with the Holy Spirit, and then told them, "whose sins YOU FORGIVE, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you hold retained, they are held retained". So, why would you ask "who" gave priests the power to forgive sins??
2007-05-09 09:21:50 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One thing for sure it is NOT from God because only God can forgive our sins. Who gives him the right then? The Church and the silly people.
2007-05-09 10:05:42 · answer #3 · answered by ASTAN 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well Jesus said to his disciples for those whose sins you forgive they are forgiven and those whose sin you retain they are retained. Although I think this means that for those sins you personally can't forgive then it sticks in your own head and those that you forgive you can let go of. So believe whatever. Don't take the bible so literally
2007-05-09 09:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The vatican.
A sinful man can never absolve someone else's sins.
The whole, babylonian-born practice is just silly at best.
They should probably stop perpetrating the enormous lie that the priests of their religion are "vicars" of Christ on earth.
Christ is His own representative. He works through His people on earth to keep Satan's pie-hole shut.
2007-05-09 10:34:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
we give the priest the right to forgive us. we have given away our power in the divine relationship. That is one of the reasons why I don't follow Religion as an institution. I have my own beliefs.
2007-05-09 09:16:18 · answer #6 · answered by violet369 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are to confess our sins to God not to a man. Churches that promote this follow other things that are not biblical.
2007-05-09 10:27:44 · answer #7 · answered by redeemed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does through the Pope of course.
2007-05-09 09:13:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋