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1 | Retain or forgive sins? | John 20:22 | Val | 204644 | ||
Tamera: It just means that after the gospel is preached to them by the apostles- the choice is up to the person who hears the gospel message. Let me be more clear: One person may hear the message, unite faith with the message, resulting in forgiveness and receive eternal life. Or the person may not unite faith with the message, resulting in hardness of heart. They retain their sins. Their sins are not forgiven because they are not covered by the blood of Christ Jesus. If they go out into eternity in this condition they will die a second death. The second part of your question is the Lord breathing on them. This enabled them to do His work. It is similar to the Old Testament saints where the Holy Spirit was upon a person as a commission for service. The third part of your question concerning Peter, upon whom I will build my church – It is not Peter on whom the church will be built but Peter’s confession and what was that confession –that Jesus is the Christ. Christ Jesus is our foundation. Blessings - Val |
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2 | Retain or forgive sins? | John 20:22 | azurelaw | 204646 | ||
Thank you for the clear and excellent answer, dear sister Val. Shalom Azure |
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3 | Retain or forgive sins? | John 20:22 | DocTrinsograce | 204648 | ||
Hi, Sister Azure... The Augsburg Confession responds to this particular question as follows: "Confession is not abolished by the preachers on our [Lutheran] side. For this practice is retained by us: the Sacrament is not offered to those not previously examined and absolved. Besides, the people are diligently instructed [about] how comforting the word of absolution is, how great and precious the absolution is to be esteemed. For it is not an actual human voice or word, but God's Word which forgives sin. For it is spoken in God's stead and at God's behest. About this behest and authority of the keys, we teach with great diligence how comforting, how necessary they are for the terrified conscience. Moreover, [we teach] how God requires [that] this absolution be not lightly believed because the voice of God rings out from heaven and the absolution cheerfully comforts us so that through such faith we get the forgiveness of sins." Elsewhere, it states, "We reject also the error of the gross Pelagians, who taught that man by his own powers, without the grace of the Holy Ghost, can turn himself to God, believe the Gospel, be obedient from the heart to God's Law, and thus merit the forgiveness of sins and eternal life." In Him, Doc |
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