IS CONFESSION IN CHRISTIANITY AN UNBELIEF TO JESUS CHRIST



According to Catholic Christian faith the Sacrament of Penance is the method by which individuald confess sins committed after baptism.
These sins are absolved by God through the administration of the priest who assigns an act of penance. In order to strengthen this Mathew 18:18 (... Whatever you will have bound on earth, shall be bound also  in heaven, and whatever you will have released on earth, shall be released also in heaven.) is quoted by those who support this. However one can also go through Mathew 18:11 too.(For the Son of Man has come to save what had been lost.)

Another significant word that need to be quoted in connection with confession is Genesis 6:6 ( ... repented that he had made man on the earth ... ) This word of God the Father is likely to be interpreted by different people and groups by their own choice and preferences. We find the repentance of God here,  which was accomplished at Golgotha on the cross in the form of Jesus Christ. And that saved the entire humanity ever born on earth.
"He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed." (1 Peter 2:24)
" ... All who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life... "
(John 3:16)
"For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him." (John 3:17)
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:24)
"For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what had been lost." (Luke 19:10)
"And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world." (1 John 2:2)
"For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
(Romans 10:13)

There are many such words that explains and ratifies how forgiveness of sin is attained by man on earth.

When the priest recommends the Supreme One to forgive the sins of man just confessed him, let us imagine that He asks back like this: "My dear son, I came to the world as Christ suffered all the abuses, they spat at my face, beaten me all over the body, pierced my head with thorns, nailed and hanged me on the wooden cross and killed. All these were suffered by me as repentance of the sins of the entire humanity ever born on earth. Yet, you are carrying their sins to me again and asking me suffer. Is it right?"  What would be our answer to this?

Those who go to confess with some health problems return after the so called forgiveness of their sins, with the same health problems. They are expected to have cured when their negative forces have gone out from them. But such cure never happen in any confession. All those who confess and supposed to have attained forgiveness return with all the problems they had.

Another conflicting aspect in this is, when negative energy is absorbed by a human he has to counter continuous impacts of those forces like sickness, bad treatment by fellow beings, failures etc. Amazingly, after drawing the negativity of many people within a few minutes time, the priest used to move away from the place of confession cheerfully and in sound health. That shows he has not carried the negatives of those confessed to him. One may explain this by saying that God has instantly forgiven all the sins of the one confessed. If that is so, at that moment onwards that person should have overcome all the problems, which never happen practically anywhere.

K V George 


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