Author Topic: Confession? (Read 2333 times)

gobosox91 · « **on:** April 19, 2012, 11:08:49 AM »

What historical and biblical basis do we have for confession? I threw out Jack Chick's and Alexander Hislop's claims about coming from Babylon since there is no evidence the Babylonians practiced that.

But what is th history of confession? How did it evolve to the way it is today?

songbird · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2012, 05:49:20 PM »

I'll try this. At the beginning of the Bible: Burnt offerings were asked by God for Thanksgiving and sorrow for sin and such. Then when Christ came, the scriptures from the beginning of the bible til Christs coming pointed to the need to remove sin, forgiveness of sin and when Christ died, it was His Precious Blood, which is in all the sacraments. He gave a command to the Apostles, "What sins you forgive they are forgiven and what sins are not, they are not." Man has a need to go through the words, actions, conscious and such to know that sin is forgiven BUT, to receive the Precious Blood!! Who would not want His Blood!! His Blood is saving. HOw many sects like the Aztec's saw blood sacrifice as important, only they were in error as we know. There is research to do. The Aztec's from what I read somewhere, that the Aztec's were once Catholic. Who ever did the research, showed evidence that they had confession as well as Catholic symbols on tombs or such. Very interesting and if so, that should be an eye opener to us all of what error can do! Thank God that Our Lady made herself known to the Aztec's! It was the biggest conversion that ever happened on the Planet Earth!

Graham · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2012, 06:57:13 PM »

Quote from: gobosox91

What historical and biblical basis do we have for confession?

John 20:23 is one of the main Biblical verses revealing the sacrament of confession. This is where Jesus ordained his disciples by breathing on them, saying as he did so that he gave them the power to forgive or to retain sins.

I can't think of any others off the top of my head, though I think confession is mentioned several times in the epistles.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2012, 07:58:48 PM »

Quote from: gobosox91

What historical and biblical basis do we have for confession? I threw out Jack Chick's and Alexander Hislop's claims about coming from Babylon since there is no evidence the Babylonians practiced that.

But what is th history of confession? How did it evolve to the way it is today?

Why did you throw out the Jack Chick comics? Best thing protestantism has going, bar none! Mr. Chick is at least funny, readable, enjoyable and he seems to truly believe what his comics are saying!

Jesus of Nazareth established the Sacrament of Penance in the Gospels.

MyrnaM · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2012, 08:17:24 PM »

Could be this person IS a Protestant, since he seems to know more about what the Protestant's favorite replies are to Catholics.

You might as well know right now gobosox that no one Protestant can ever get the best of a Catholic who knows their faith.

Why?

True Catholics have the Truth, and the truth will set you free.

Protestants only take the first step. They say, they believe in God, most even go so far as to say they believe in the Trinity, but every things stops there for them, because quite simply they do exactly what the fallen angels did. The fallen angels believe in God, the fallen angels believed in the Trinity, but the fallen angels would not honor His mother. They were too proud!