If you have any issues, please call the office at or email us at info carm. The Roman Catholic Bible contains all of the sixty-six books found in Protestant Bibles but also contains 7 additional One of the many significant divides between Catholics and Protestants is the Roman Catholic doctrine of During the week of Oct. Search for:. Does John mean that Catholic priests can forgive sins? Connect with D. I allow to create an account. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings.
We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. Disagree Agree. Notify of. Newest Oldest Most Voted. Perhaps he thought he had good reasons because he had seen so many abuses of the sacrament of confession. Whatever his motivation may have been, it seems clear that he did not pay close enough attention to verse On the other hand, consider the use of this text that the Catholic Church makes in its formula of absolution.
May God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Church only proclaims what God has done. But what does that have to do with a priest forgiving sin? He also conferred that peace on them by giving them the Holy Spirit.
I agree that the Holy Spirit plays an important role in applying the forgiveness of Christ to sinners, but again that action is something only God can do. Now what authority did Jesus receive from God the Father? We saw earlier, in Mark , that he had the authority to forgive sins. Jesus brought the power of forgiveness from heaven to earth. So now, in John , he is giving that same authority to his apostles. God the Father gave Jesus that authority because he is God too. But a human priest is not God.
A priest is not God, but the priest has the power to confer or convey the forgiveness of God—not by his own power but by the power that Christ conferred on his apostles that day recorded for us in John — It comes from Christ. Here are the lesser ones with their refutations following them: Matthew where we read that whatever the apostles bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and what they unbind on earth shall be unbound in Heaven.
Since this passage refers to whatever not whoever it is taken as confirmation that Jesus conferred on his entourage the ability to take sins away. But there is no reason to suppose that he meant sin. The promise was made in the context of talking about Church discipline. Catholicism should stop taking verses out of context. Jesus promised his disciples the ability to accept only those he approved into his Church and to put the unwanted out of it.
This could only be done if they were infallibly inspired by him from Heaven. The apostles needed this gift to keep unity among themselves and the Church and unity is more important than doctrine in the sense that true doctrine is lost to some degree if there is too much schism and it is brought into disrepute.
Rome knows this doctrine but cannot confess it is true for it would mean that she is infallible when she excommunicates and even she admits she is not infallible then. Yet the promise may be one of another kind of infallibility, protection from error in order to teach the word of God and to have it written down. The Catholic Church has no right using this text here to justify absolving when she also uses it to persuade folks that she cannot err in her ecumenical councils and when her pope speaks ex cathedra or from the chair of Peter.
The Church assumes that when Jesus gave the Church the power to bind and loose so that what it bound or loosed would be bound or loosed in Heaven he meant it could forgive sin.
This is nonsense. The power was given in the present tense before the time after the resurrection when Rome says he gave the power to forgive sins to the apostles. The authority refers only to the power to accept people or excommunicate them. Rome says Jesus forgave sins. Do marriage guidance counsellors who have a ministry of reconciliation forgive the estranged husband and wife? The final Catholic proof is the alleged mention of Paul absolving the sins of an incestuous man in his letters 1 Corinthians 5; 2 Corinthians 2.
Paul judging, excommunicating and pardoning this man is hardly the same as giving him the sacrament of penance! Paul never met this man and when he was able to judge him he must have been able to read his mind by the power of the spirit. Catholic absolution demands that the penitent be present for absolution. In 2 Corinthians 2, Paul wrote that he forgives in the person of Christ whoever the Corinthians forgive.
And Paul is definitely not telling the Corinthians that they can forgive for him as if they were him so how could Jesus be doing that either? The Catholic Church says that distant absolutions are futile for the person has to be near the absolver.
A Presbyterian minister could say the same as Paul concerning a reconciled rebel who has broken Church law and he does not absolve. John has Jesus giving the Holy Spirit to the disciples and telling them that if they forgive the sins of any they are forgiven and if they do not forgive they are not forgiven. It does not say that it means they can forgive sins as if they were the ones the sins were against. There are two forgivings not one.
The apostles make their decision to forgive and God makes his to forgive along with them. The text does not say that Jesus gave them the power to forgive sins against God. It is against commonsense to imagine that John can forgive you for Eddie when it was Eddie you hurt. The Bible assumes we have the power to think. When Jesus told the apostles after his resurrection that if they forgave the sins of any they were forgiven he may have had the non-literal interpretation in mind John Jesus knew that though the paganism of Roman Catholicism has forgotten that.
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