I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.
Just another bizarre and stupid religious practice... lets see... Don't go to confession — don't go to heaven.
When I informed him I was
not going to confession, he told me he was concerned because he didn't want my soul to go to hell.
Not exact matches
Strength in vulnerability will show up with statements like, «I have a
confession to make» or «I'm really
not sure where
to go with this, what would you do in my situation?»
That one should probably
go to some kind of frugal diaries or
confessions, but if you know a bit the European culture, it is
not that big of a deal, actually many of my cousins who are in their late 20s / early 30s do
not even have their driving license!
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Go to confession annually if
not more often or when needed.
if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they
go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is
not, I do
not believe in god or wasting time
going to church
to try
to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am
going to hell because that's where all my friends are
going and I don, t want
to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.
So if you
went to one of these child molesting priests for
confession, were your sins actually forgiven or does it
not count because the Roman Catholic priest was a child molester?
Those existing before the Cross were presented with the Gospel by Jesus and the criminal on the Cross that
went with Jesus
to paradise did
not make any unique
confession of Christian faith only asked Jesus
to remember him.
We realize that some people in the Church have committed this terrible sin but I have never considered leaving the Church because of someone's sin... and I don't think anyone has left because they saw me waiting in line
to go to confession either.
You don't think there's a correlation with the fact that people who are
going through tough times tend
to attend church twice as often, and if catholic, are 3 times as likely
to give
confession than they would be if something wasn't bothering them.
It
goes back, if
not to the
Confessions of Augustine, then certainly
to those of Rousseau — Dunham's forebear in revealing everything, no matter how unseemly.
I say, «I don't think God is that concerned about you
going to church, reading the Bible, attending mass, tithing,
going to confession, or giving up smoking and drinking.
They even
went so far as
to say that a believer need
not be a professed Muslim, for faith is a
confession of the heart while Islam is an outward or public
confession of the tongue.
If that's so, then the church's conceptual formulation of its
confession of Christ — its dogma — doesn't obscure Jesus so much as tell us who he is, what's
going on in his history: God's very life is being borne
to us.
If you are
going to deny the content of the historical
confession of the Christian church, as you have done repeatedly on this blog, and now on the eve of the day on which the church commemorates the «incarnation of the word», God with us, Emmanuel,
not an insignificant percentage of said church under persecution, hardship and threatening circumstances trying
to worship, I would consider it more forthright, if you called yourself something other than «Christian» because that really does imply a historic
confession.
Man and wife may
go to confession in beautiful fellowship with each other, but they may
not confess together.
This rather clumsy attempt at harmonization was
not successful however, for Matthew
went on
to appeal
to «all that was happening» as the evidence which brought forth from the centurion his spontaneous
confession of faith.
If we're
going to be silly and suggest that Christianity does
NOT have
to talk about «Incarnation» and «Trinity» in order
to be Christian, then it stands
to reason that ecumenical Church history, the creeds and
confessions, the Fathers, mean diddly squat in defining what «Christianity» is.
This does
not mean it is OK
to become complacent about
confession and think it doesn't matter if I do this, because I can always
go to confession and I will be forgiven.
The
confession then
goes on
to emphasize
NOT loving God with our whole hearts and our neighbors as ourselves.
He or she must be someone who, hearing the full
confession of our weakness and accepting it, is likely
to become the vehicle for our hearing Christ say, «Neither do I condemn you;
go, and do
not sin again.»
Greear
goes on
to argue that this man is
not saved because he did
not maintain his
confession of faith throughout his entire life (p. 6).
Rose
goes to confession after Pinkie's death, but all she really regrets is
not having killed herself for him.
Mr. Donohue will need
to make a darn strong
confession before he dies, because God does
not endorse hate and those who die with such sins on their soul
go to hell.
Luther was anxious that the institution of
Confession, which he valued highly, should
not be abused; nevertheless, one did
not have
to pretend that authority for it
went back
to the New Testament: «For although private
confession is one of the most salutary practices, we know perfectly well that the authority on which it is based is quite shaky.»
I have a
confession to make: my husband and I haven't
gone away on vacation together since the early 2000's.
, the super excited ones that LOVE it and can't relate, and the true
confession of wanting
to go out drinking (one brave soul shared that).
But the problem is, you can
not force a
confession out of someone who is
not gonna give it up.
And here
goes a
confession... I once used
to eat some peanut butter chocolate cups that have an uncanny resemblance
to the above image... Yep, I'd gladly eat a pack of three more often than
not (I wince as I... Continue reading Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cups
And I have a
confession to make: I'm
not a huge fan of Hermes bags (but could
go crazy quite easily with their bracelets!)
A date who cares enough and wants
to know you better will
not be thrown off balance with such
confessions and will still
go through with the date.
Zach totally
went to second base with Kaitlin, Gurl 101 6 outdated relationship phrases you don't Hookup
Confessions; Sex & Dating Quizzes;
Well, perhaps Hartnett is devoutly religious and considers a vow made for Lent as a holy pact, but it's all a phony facade from a man who never
goes to church and who can only make
confessions to his brother who isn't even a real priest.
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Before
going any further I have a
confession to make, I am
not the world's biggest tower defence fan.
There is no particularly good reason that Father James would
not immediately
go to the police, especially after he is reassured that the privilege of
confession does
not apply when relating
to future criminal activity, or even just leave the town or
not walk
to the beach on Sunday.
It may
not be the most conventional opening gambit for a group test, but I'm
going to front up with a
confession.
She explains that intimidation and isolation are common
confession techniques; that she was forced
to confess
to things that weren't true; that she was given no pen and paper, no bed, and had
to ask
to go to the bathroom.
If «stunned» is the adjective we keep hearing about the reaction
to the news, there's good reason for that, right at the core of the UK's political elite: in an interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, CNN's Wolf Blitzer today has heard one of the most telling
confessions of how things
went this way, as Blair talks of the Labour Party failing
to mobilize its voters by explaining
to them, «This was
not a protest vote.»
Dirty
confession time — I wasn't
going to write up an IndieLife post for this second Wednesday of the month.
His first book, Kitchen Confidential, included graphic accounts of what
goes on behind kitchen doors,
not to mention frank
confessions about his own drug use and other exploits.
Some police, who know it's their last shot
to get a
confession and know once your lawyer gets there will never talk
to you again (and they have enough
to go forward without your
confession in the event you just start blabbing «you did it» before they can get you
to invoke your rights) will keep talking
to you and tell you
not to comment, just
to listen, even while your lawyer sits outside.
These benefits can
go to accomplices, reluctant witnesses, or the most insidious type of witness — jailhouse informants like Carter who claim
to hear
confessions and whose testimony usually can
not be verified.