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   Shaun,   
      
    SB> Which doesn't mean sin is okay. One cannot expect to continue sinning,   
    SB> as long as one continues to confess...The concept of the 'confessional'   
    SB> is one of the main reasons I knew I wasn't Catholic.   
      
     His Grace is a License To SERVE...and NOT a License To Sin.   
      
     Why confess your sins to a preacher, priest, etc.?? He is just as much a   
   sinner as you are, according to Romans 3:23 ("For ALL have sinned, and   
   come short of the Glory of God"), and Romans 3:10 ("As it is written...   
   there is NONE righteous...not one"). Yet, many believe that certain   
   religious figures are without sin.    
      
     The preacher, priest, etc. could use those sins as blackmail against    
   you...but The Lord would never do that. If you've repented (changed    
   your mind about sin), and asked Christ to be your Lord and Saviour,    
   He has cast your sins into "the sea of forgetfulness", and He says    
   about that location, "where I will remember them no more". The late   
   Corrie Ten Boom said about that lake, "No Fishing!!".   
      
     The Lord's earthly mother, Mary, who raised him, along with her    
   husband, Joseph (he was Jesus' step-father, as Almighty God was (and    
   is) His real Father)...said "My soul does magnify The Lord. And, my    
   spirit has rejoiced in God, My Saviour".    
      
     If she was sinless, as many believe (especially the Catholics), *WHY*    
   did she say her firstborn son was her Saviour?? And, why did she spend    
   all that money for a sin offering of turtledoves if she was sinless??    
      
     Then, the Catholics and others believe you have to "do good works" for   
   your salvation. Isaiah 64:6 says "Your righteousness is as filthy rags"   
   (literally, bloody menstrual cloths), and Ephesians 2:8-9 says "For by    
   Grace are you saved through faith. This is not of yourselves...it is   
   The Gift of God...not of works, lest anyone should boast".   
      
     When I've asked Catholics these questions, they have no answer for them.    
      
     Some believe that the Catholic Church is "the great whore of the book    
   of Revelation"...but that won't be known until after the Rapture. Yet,   
   much of what the Pope is doing goes against Biblical principles...such   
   as saying "gays and athiests will be in Heaven". I see nothing of that   
   in The Bible. What God said as an abomination millenia ago, is still   
   the same. If He did change, all of us would've been consumed by His   
   Righteous Fire...and if He gave us what we deserved, we would've been   
   stamped out of existence long ago.   
      
     Satan has many duped by the lie that "there are many ways to Heaven"...   
   yet these 2 verses contradict that:   
      
   1) John 14:6 -- "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life. No one comes to   
   The Father, but through Me". -- Jesus Christ   
      
   2) Acts 4:12 -- "Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is   
   no other name under Heaven, given among mankind, whereby we must be   
   saved". -- The Apostle Peter after Pentecost   
      
     Those are the 2 most hated verses in the Bible, by the majority of   
   mankind. Those that want nothing of God, Jesus, or Biblical Christianity   
   in their Earthly Life, will also be given that during eternity...and it   
   will be a decision that they regret forever.   
      
     The plan of salvation is so simple...yet many reject it because of   
   its simplicity. When the Philppian jailer asked the Apostles Paul and   
   Silas "What must I do to be saved?", he was told "Believe on The Lord   
   Jesus Christ" (Acts 16:31).   
      
     Simply put, it's God's Creation, and it's His Rules.   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... "When you see a snake never mind where it came from." -W.G.Benham   
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