ATONEMENT PREVENTS PRIESTLY ABSOLUTION

The Catholic Church believes that Jesus somehow earned forgiveness for us and that this pardon is distributed in confession by the priest.

Now, when our sins are paid for, what right does God have to keep the freedom from sin we are entitled to from us until we go to confession? It is different for men to make conditions for legal pardon but that is because we don’t see into people’s hearts but God does and so he can do the right thing easily and the moment the person is open to his grace. The sacrament of reconciliation contradicts God’s love and willingness to keep us out of Hell. There is no need for the sacrament.
 
If Jesus paid for our sins then we are not forgiven in confession because instead of being forgiven our sins are punished though someone else had to pay. So, the atonement means that priests cannot really forgive sins. They are told to intend to but how can they? And their absolution is invalid if they don’t.

Jesus did not give priests the power to forgive sins in confession and if he tried to then he was a disgrace and tricking people with fake forgiveness. If you do wrong the only forgiveness you may get is forgiveness from real persons. Forgiveness is too big of a matter for anybody to be telling you God forgives you when there is no God! Nobody should encourage anybody to go to confession or to believe in the sacrament. If you feel it is man not God who forgives you in confession then it follows that confession has nothing to do with it if you have a conversion. You cannot really take man’s forgiveness that seriously for it is only man’s. People subliminally realising this could explain why confession in practice means people using it as an excuse for keeping up the sins.

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BIBLE VERSIONS USED
The Amplified Bible