silvaticus 🌲

🇻🇦• Going into the source that God made to transcend the New World Order • sensitive young soul • neophyte • recovering shutin

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Toda I walked five miles

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@MusicRobbies @DrShayPhD You're the one who's saying James and John don't mean what they're saying, which would be a complication

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Without confession, Christ giving His disciples the authority to forgive and retain sins is kinda pointless

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@NeilHatten @DrShayPhD Why would Jesus need to give them authority to forgive on a personal level? That's something anybody can do at any time and wouldn't need to be said.

This interpretation also makes the retention part of this authority/permission quite strange.

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@MusicRobbies @DrShayPhD No, the Catholic interpretation harmonizes all of these perfectly

It would be you who is unclear on mediation, because it creates a conflict with at least James & John, with the only resolution being requiring them to mean something entirely different than what they plainly say

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@MusicRobbies @DrShayPhD Yes, and we both know that there is no contradiction

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@MusicRobbies @DrShayPhD Seems unlikely, because it requires you to claim that John 20:22-23 doesn't say what it clearly says.

Furthermore, this position would render James's instruction to confess to one another improper at best and sinful at worst.

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@MusicRobbies @DrShayPhD Correct - perhaps mediation doesn't mean what you think it means.

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John 20:22–23
> "And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’"

Bonus: James 5:16
> "Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects."

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Post a river

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Post a river

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@Brumairian Indeed. Protestant men's groups sometimes have a confessional aspect to them, but it's typically scoped to a certain category of sin.

Confessing to a priest is by far the best implementation for the soul and for human psychology.

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@myotarditis @AiPinfu2003

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@myotarditis The Lorax will decide

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What is the purpose of doing this to trees?

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Today I walked 6 miles and had a 7x7, beef tallow fries, and a vanilla milkshake from @SteaknShake :)

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This is where I was when I posted this. The trail was pretty overgrown and I hadn't seen any arrows for a quite a while.

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Ngl frens
Unsure where am
Only signal for short transmission
No need to find me
Am OK

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This is not legal advice

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Fun Fact: if it's not technically posted, it's not legally enforceable!

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@myotarditis I'm calling the Lorax

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God has given you the greatest open world video game to explore - complete with obstacles to vault over!

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Oh! A treat?