Confessing to a Priest? Hard Pass. Why I Thought Catholicism Was A Terrible Idea (Part 2)

[@DarlowMaxwell]

There is a psychological component to the hearing of someone say that your sins are forgiven. You don’t receive the same psychological feeling when you simply pray yourself.

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

YES 100%

[@fc.aranyos]

It also demands greater accountability to confess to a priest... Specially when you stumble over the same rock more than once.

[@CatholicOnTheSpectrum]

John 20:23: “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained”

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

@@CatholicOnTheSpectrum 🙌🏻

[@CatholicOnTheSpectrum]

@@JulieFlourishinginFaith facts

[@davelipsiea1553]

Nice job on the videos! You have a gift for explaining the faith in a calm, charitable manner - keep up the good work!

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

Thank you Dave for the kind words and for listening and commenting! God bless!

[@DarlowMaxwell]

Your videos are excellent. I’m a convert and you lay out facts in such a calm and logical manner.

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

@@DarlowMaxwell thank you for listening and the kind words and WELCOME HOME 💗💗

[@MUSIC-MARY]

Live truth, live CATHOLIC!!!

[@tony1685]

yet the Bible shows us that catholicism mandates sin, teaching contrary Truth.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

@@tony1685 Hardly. Your denomination does: to not follow the Church = not to follow Christ.

[@wordforever117]

@@tony1685 No details provided. You do this on purpose so that we cannot refute you.

[@tony1685]

@@wordforever117 sin = transgression of God's law -- 1 John 3:4 Ex 20:8-11 is about the Lord's day, the 7th day Sabbath, not sunday.

[@tony1685]

@@WineSippingCowboy 'follow' = imitate -- isn't that correct? see Mark 1:21, Mark 6:2, Luke 4:16 & John 15:10 -- again, it's catholicism which mandates sin.

[@stu5385]

Jesus take your heart of stone and He makes it a heart of flesh again as Mary did with me through Her Son, it is a love no one can forget and you really know the passion of Jesus and why He gone through the pain and suffering for us all.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

All sin are the same? Regarding equivocating jay walking with murder, I refer to Clint Eastwood, a fellow San Francisco native, in the movie Magnum Force (50+ years) "Pretty soon, you'll start executing people for jaywalking and executing people for traffic violations. Then, you end up executing your neighbor because his dog pees on your lawn!" Jails are for felons, not for petty traffic violators. In summary, The Catholic Church is right about separating venial sin from mortal sin: you do not send a teen who jay walked to 99 years in jail!

[@MUSIC-MARY]

Confess to a Priest! “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted.” (John 20:21-23) (CCC 987) (251 A.D.) Bishop Cyprian: “Remission made by the priests.” (Treatise 3, On the Lapsed, Section 29) (70 A.D.) “The Didache” “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” (7:1, 4:14, 14:1) (CCC 830-854, 975) (Mathew 28:19) Sunday mass, confess sins in church then EUCHARIST, fast Wednesday & Friday, pray our father, “Baptize pour out water thrice upon the head into the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit.” (14:1) Similar to infant Baptism (2 Corinthians 2:11-12) (388 A.D.) St. Ambrose: “Wicked schism denying sins can be forgiven [by confession] in the Church.” (Penance 1:7:33)

[@tony1685]

God Alone forgives 3rd party sins -- according to the Word of God.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

@@tony1685 One weakness of your denomination: yours does not tell when and if sins are forgoven. The Bible has no indication of those conditions with any Protestant denomination. Only the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox communities can!

[@MUSIC-MARY]

@@tony1685 Prove that Jesus says write a New Testament! YOU CAN’T!!! He NEVER did!!! Sola Scriptura is FALSE! (1522 A.D.) Martin Luther: “Christ wrote NOT His teaching and gave no command to write it.” Weimarer Ausgabe (WA) (W.A., 10, pp. 625-28) Not everything Jesus did is in the Bible! (John 21:25) (2 Thessalonians 2:15) (2 Timothy 2:2) Jesus Did NOT tell his Disciples to WRITE a NEW TESTAMENT, he gives them the CHURCH, the AUTHORITY & the HOLY GHOST “For ever.” (John 20:22) (Mathew 28:19-20, 18:17-18, 28:19) (Mathew 28:20) (John 14:16, 16:13, 20:21-23) (John 14:16, 16:13, 20:21-23) “Hear the church.” (Mathew 18:17) (CCC 891) “The truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15) (CCC 171) (John 21:25) You Protestants have 45K denominations, you CAN’T agree with each other, why should I agree with you! It is chaos! Jesus wants us to be one! (John 17:21-24) The figure of over 45,000 Protestant denominations comes from research conducted by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. The Bible has about 194 CONTRADICTIONS in the New Testament!!! www.innvista.com/culture/religion/bible/contrant.htm

[@MUSIC-MARY]

@@WineSippingCowboy Amen!

[@WineSippingCowboy]

@@MUSIC-MARY Now, if you can tell Ted Tan in the YT channel of @juliepnicole, your sources will be appreciated 👍 by fellow Catholics. Stubborn man and dodges my questions.

[@erroljacobs4555]

Aman my sister in christ Jesus. Love from south Africa cape Town ❤

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

@@erroljacobs4555 thank you! God bless you!!

[@Fernie.Fender.2b]

You have an excellent podcast and good taste in art (expressionist painting). I can definitely relate to the misconceptions about the Catholic Church but once you do your research, especially relating to the church fathers, it’s really hard to keep your eyes closed. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea that the Bible is actually a Catholic book. If you enjoy history, you will probably come to the same conclusion. May God bless you and your podcast.

[@arthurgrey8967]

People from both sides I think miss the point when we argue over whose scriptural interpretation is correct or heretical. Were putting the cart before the horse, much in the same way Christ criticized the religious leaders of His day over Sabbath observances or cleanliness laws in Jewish tradition. In both instances what Christ was effectively admonishing them for is disregarding the reason and intent of God's law and focusing entirely on the legalistic observances. The central disagreements between Catholicism and most other Christian theologies revolve around these issues, but it isn't apparent to most when they're arguing the faith. In my opinion, and this is no way intended as a slight, it truly isn't. Just an intellectual observation for consideration. But to me protestantism is an immature theology. Not childish, just not well thought out with respect to the larger implications of what they believe. There are always ramifications to these beliefs on either side that must be thought through if we are to arrive at the truth. But most on both sides don't care about these larger questions. They just want to know or be told what they have to do to get into heaven, and tend to prefer the "easier" option. I understand that and completely sympathize. By way of example. We seem to all agree that God is all loving and merciful. Infinitely so. That Creation was an act of selfless love by the Lord, because there is nothing we can offer in exchange for this gift that can add or subtract from God. He's infinitely sufficient unto Himself. He doesn't need anything. So why are we here on earth? Why not just create us directly into Heaven? Why would an all loving and merciful God set up a system where we were forced to suffer and worse able to cause Him offense that would damn our souls for all eternity? A protestant would claim that we require faith in Christ to enter Heaven. Was faith the reason we are here. Who would need faith in the face of God? Wouldn't that issue be solved immediately upon seeing Him? We acknowledge God gave us among other things faith, hope and love. The greatest being love. Well in heaven we no longer require faith or hope. Only love remains. These questions form knowingly or unknowingly the basis of theology. Catholics I would argue, whether you think correctly or incorrectly, have wrestled with these ideas from the beginning trying to understand God's nature and His will for us. I don't see that on the protestant side. Its more akin to people preparing a legal brief to present one day in God's court of Judgement. Personally trying to understand the nature of God its clear to me we are here because there is something necessary to learn before we can exist in communion with God's nature. Something He can't just give us or He would have. My reason tells me its to learn how to love. It can't be forced, but must be chosen. And not teenage hormone butterflies in the stomach love. But as Augustine wrote willing the good of the other for the sake of the other. Love is selfless, like God's love. Then the rest begins to make more sense than an arbitrary need to have us discern His existence and believe in it with limited knowledge or insight. I don't believe in Christ because a bunch of people I don't know claim something happened 2000 years ago. I believe in Christ because what He taught matches what my own reason tells me about the nature of God. And the Catholic faith to me reflects that most accurately, and I understand the necessary inferences they make from scripture to resolve these larger questions and make what God taught coherent. They are necessary implications.

[@cdb5961]

You undermine your argument before it started by calling others immature. Since you took the time to write a long comment you clearly intended insult.

[@AquinasBased]

@@cdb5961 womp womp

[@arthurgrey8967]

@@cdb5961 You skipped every caveat and the entire post to make that non point? In truth you are making the point for me. The same way you butchered my post and intent, misinterpreting what I said, is how many treat scripture to suit their ends and not arrive at truth. Is it instinctive? Immature as I clearly stated was not slighting by referring to it as childish. But rather not well thought out, and without consideration of the theological conclusions it makes. By way of example examine what protestant theory on justification is saying about God relative to how the Catechism defines the issue. Luther compared it to people being piles of dung that can't change. Christ therefore by His sacrifice covered us like a blanket of white pure snow. And thats how we enter heaven as sinful impure creatures. Calvin understood that was insane and unbiblical, so he attempted to explain it as a courtroom with God as judge. He knows were guilty, we know it, and Christ comes in and literally offers to take our sins upon us, go to earth, and God agrees to put our sins into Him and take His wrath out upon Him. Aka penal substitution. So by that theory not only is God unjust, but schizophrenic willing to take His wrath out on anyone so long as He can unleash his fury on anyone, even an innocent man. Does that sound like God? Conversely Catholic Church having given it thought, and not trying to arrive at an end (justification through faith alone) correctly reasoned that what Christ did was pay our debt for sin. That every offense against God is an offense against love (see 10 commandments) which creates a debt which we can never pay as the cost is too high (see parable of servant who had his debt forgiven). So God in His mercy , through His act of supreme love in the passion on the cross, paid that debt for us. Not God inflicting vengeance on an innocent man like a psycho. But God never loving Christ more than at that moment for this act of pure selfless love. Notice that God's nature requires Him to do this rather than simply write off the debt and call it a day (God of Truth). Now do you truly imagine the God of truth is going to let in piles of dung into heaven that have been white washed on the surface?

[@d.h.5407]

I suggest you consider the consequences of Luther’s discarding of Apostolic Tradition - what the Lord Jesús gave the Apostles, who gave it to the Church. This was the undocumented teachings, practices, reasons, and understandings which make authentic Christianity (Catholicism) coherent and logical. Thousands of denominations lack this coherence and don’t make sense, disagree with each other, continue to fracture.

[@NinaMarieGutierrez]

AMEN AMEN On target. I am Catholic and Protestant. I truely participate in the rite of reconcilliation. Bible DOES state that Jesus forgives Sin. The thief on the cross asked Jesus to remember him when he comes into his kingdom. A form of asking forgiveness. When he healed ten Leapers and all left and one came back to thank Jesus. A form of asking forgiveness and being thankful for healing him. And so many others. Abrahams daughter who had suffered 18 years with a blood issue. Once touching Jesus garment and being healed. The pharisees exclaimed "You heal on the Sabbath Day" The Seventh Day of rest. Not a Jewish day or a Jewish commandment, The Fourth Commandment. I AM's, Jesus, Yehweh's Commandment. Jesus responded " So You that you know that I forgive sin Daughter of Abraham. You are forgiven and healed. Not everyone can speak with tongue and ask Jesus for forgiveness, Not even the ones who CAN speak. Jesus knows what is in our hearts, and when we come to him seeking help. WE ARE coming to Jesus and confessing our sins and asking for forgiveness. THE PRIESTS and anyone who has ear to hear, have been given the rite by Jesus to hear and forgive sin THROUGH our Lord Christ Jesus. Therefore confess your sins to one another. You will feel releived and healed. I am a sinner. I have commited adultry, I have stolen goods, I have not kept my Fathers Commandments. I ask forgiveness of my sins from you, My brothers and Sisters, Through Christ Jesus.

[@RobRando927]

I have a Catholic mom.When I get into discussions with her on that religion I tell her it is the truth that matters not religion,traditions,teachings of the Catholic Church.Jesus himself was the only person ever born who had the authority to forgive sins.Nobody else.Thats biblical.You got deceived but thats normal because the bible teaches that the woman Eve was easily decieved and not the man.1 Timothy 2:14-15.You seem nice though.

[@joepickett7084]

Yah, that makes sense. Murder is equal to foul language in God's eyes. I guess she has not read the Bible, binding and loosing must not be in there. "Confess your sins" St Paul never said I guess.

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

Hey I think my title kind of threw you off and you must not have watched the video… I’m a convert! 🤣

[@wordforever117]

It is not correct that only God can forgive sins in the bible. There is absolutely nothing about confessing sins to God in the bible...that is a unbiblical practise. You MUST confess your sins to one another and the Apostles have the authority of Christ to forgive sins.

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

@@wordforever117 did you watch the video?

[@wordforever117]

@@JulieFlourishinginFaith I am just summarising the topic. Not contradicting you.

[@johnszish3564]

Confess your sins to one another how is this to be practiced

[@wordforever117]

@@johnszish3564 Historically this is done by each individual examining their conscience and then saying together with their congregation the Confiteor prayer, acknowledging their sins and asking one another to pray for them. This happens to this day at every Catholic mass. Then we also have the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Which you probably already know about,

[@jineshfrancis]

Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; Whose sins you keep, they are kept. John 20:23 "Confess your sins in church, and do not go up to your prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life. . . . On the Lord’s Day gather together, break bread, and give thanks, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure" (Didache 4:14, 14:1 [A.D. 70]). "You shall judge righteously. You shall not make a schism, but you shall pacify those that contend by bringing them together. You shall confess your sins. You shall not go to prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of light" (Letter of Barnabas 19 [A.D. 74]). "For as many as are of God and of Jesus Christ are also with the bishop. And as many as shall, in the exercise of penance, return into the unity of the Church, these, too, shall belong to God, that they may live according to Jesus Christ" (Letter to the Philadelphians 3 [A.D. 110]) "[The Gnostic disciples of Marcus] have deluded many women. . . . Their consciences have been branded as with a hot iron. Some of these women make a public confession, but others are ashamed to do this, and in silence, as if withdrawing from themselves the hope of the life of God, they either apostatize entirely or hesitate between the two courses" (Against Heresies 1:22 [A.D. 189]).

[@JulieFlourishinginFaith]

Hey thanks for commenting! Did you watch the vid? I’m a convert sorry if the title threw you off