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Re: “No one, not even ourselves, can tell the level of culpability we have, only God knows.”
The above statement on the face of it is radically untrue. And as such to believe it would be to believe a most diabolical lie! We are all obliged by God in fact to come to a good understanding regarding good and evil and to learn, and desire, to choose to do the good.
Nowhere does the Church, or the Bible, teach us that only God can tell the level of culpability that we may or may not have in respect to any particular sins we commit. In fact the Church teaches the very opposite in that She teaches us, her children, how we “can tell the level of culpability we have,” in respect to all of our sins. And that we are indeed all held accountable individually as such, and particularity at the last Judgment.
Therefore, we all must find out what is the level of our own culpability when it comes to discerning our very own particular sins. In order that we can do our own parts to repent and adjust our own behaviors accordingly, albeit with God’s supernatural helps. Including also if and when it may become absolutely necessary for us to partake of the “Second Plank of Salvation” i.e., the Sacrament of Reconciliation. That is we are taught by our Holy Mother Church when it is exactly a case when we must partake of this particular sacrament in the sense of having it obligatorily administered to us by a priest as in doing so according its ancient Primary Usage.
(non-obligatory regular or frequent confession of sins that are not mortal sins is understood as being another type of usage of this sacrament altogether)
And the particular case and point of grave necessity is where, and whenever, If, we have actually become morally conscience, i.e., conscientiously convicted, of having actually committed an actual culpable Mortal Sin! This is the “Shipwreck”
Holy Mother Church knows the critical differences between what does constitute an actual Mortal sin as compared to a Venial sin. And as such She is abundantly clear too for the purpose of teaching us, her beloved children, exactly how we might, and, “can tell the level of culpability we have,” in respect to any and all of our particular sins.
Many of which we may be able to bring to mind specifically during our respective private self examinations of our own guilty consciences: and to be sure our Holy Mother Church does know and does teach what I have presented heretofore herein; and She does do so even far more abundantly than even I have ventured to proffer here briefly. And She is not God.
If one has been validly baptized he is in the state of grace until, if unfortunately, he actually falls from that blessed state and forfeits the gift of supernatural life by coming to an occasion, or many occasions, of committing real and actual Mortal Sin; which is, for anyone who would like to know; something that is very clearly identifiable according to the definitions and explanations regarding what constitute the various types of sin; which are just some of the superabundant divine teachings of the Catholic Church which have been preserved and handed down to us thereby, which have been restated over and over again, and again, by the many and various qualified catechist all down through the historic church age, etc: but then if one still does not want or can not find for themselves in these teachings how to discern for themselves the level of their own particular culpability; that is if they are an adult person at least; he or she would have to be in some significant manner a poor soul who is mentally incapable of using the human mind which they do have which generally is capable of discerning right from wrong and which in Christian baptism was even re-created in the image of God; as it were.
Perhaps such persons as they are here and there have become severely self deceive, or enslaved by someone else’s diabolic deceptions directly; that is to say perhaps for some reason they have become victimized by the philosophy of some culprit which utterly rejects or even deliberately twists and contradicts the abundantly clear teachings handed down to us by our Holy Mother Church: as in the case of the statement I quoted above at the beginning of this particular contribution to this conversation.
What we know for sure regarding our personal actual sins is exactly how it is that we can discern the level of our very own culpability regarding each. This informs our conscience as to when we may need to confess any specific sin or sins to a priest. And all this we can well know even perhaps long before our involving and employing the priest to do his duty on our behalf.
The bottom line here is that all we really obligatorily need from the priest in any specific case of having discerned privately that we have committed a particular Mortal Sin. Is for him to listen and to hear our confession in order for him, i.e., when we can tell and know the level of culpability that we have which informs our understanding as to exactly when a confession is obligatorily necessary; that is when we need a priest to validly administer to us on those particular occasions the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
God is Mercy!
The above statement on the face of it is radically untrue. And as such to believe it would be to believe a most diabolical lie! We are all obliged by God in fact to come to a good understanding regarding good and evil and to learn, and desire, to choose to do the good.
Nowhere does the Church, or the Bible, teach us that only God can tell the level of culpability that we may or may not have in respect to any particular sins we commit. In fact the Church teaches the very opposite in that She teaches us, her children, how we “can tell the level of culpability we have,” in respect to all of our sins. And that we are indeed all held accountable individually as such, and particularity at the last Judgment.
Therefore, we all must find out what is the level of our own culpability when it comes to discerning our very own particular sins. In order that we can do our own parts to repent and adjust our own behaviors accordingly, albeit with God’s supernatural helps. Including also if and when it may become absolutely necessary for us to partake of the “Second Plank of Salvation” i.e., the Sacrament of Reconciliation. That is we are taught by our Holy Mother Church when it is exactly a case when we must partake of this particular sacrament in the sense of having it obligatorily administered to us by a priest as in doing so according its ancient Primary Usage.
(non-obligatory regular or frequent confession of sins that are not mortal sins is understood as being another type of usage of this sacrament altogether)
And the particular case and point of grave necessity is where, and whenever, If, we have actually become morally conscience, i.e., conscientiously convicted, of having actually committed an actual culpable Mortal Sin! This is the “Shipwreck”
Holy Mother Church knows the critical differences between what does constitute an actual Mortal sin as compared to a Venial sin. And as such She is abundantly clear too for the purpose of teaching us, her beloved children, exactly how we might, and, “can tell the level of culpability we have,” in respect to any and all of our particular sins.
Many of which we may be able to bring to mind specifically during our respective private self examinations of our own guilty consciences: and to be sure our Holy Mother Church does know and does teach what I have presented heretofore herein; and She does do so even far more abundantly than even I have ventured to proffer here briefly. And She is not God.
If one has been validly baptized he is in the state of grace until, if unfortunately, he actually falls from that blessed state and forfeits the gift of supernatural life by coming to an occasion, or many occasions, of committing real and actual Mortal Sin; which is, for anyone who would like to know; something that is very clearly identifiable according to the definitions and explanations regarding what constitute the various types of sin; which are just some of the superabundant divine teachings of the Catholic Church which have been preserved and handed down to us thereby, which have been restated over and over again, and again, by the many and various qualified catechist all down through the historic church age, etc: but then if one still does not want or can not find for themselves in these teachings how to discern for themselves the level of their own particular culpability; that is if they are an adult person at least; he or she would have to be in some significant manner a poor soul who is mentally incapable of using the human mind which they do have which generally is capable of discerning right from wrong and which in Christian baptism was even re-created in the image of God; as it were.
Perhaps such persons as they are here and there have become severely self deceive, or enslaved by someone else’s diabolic deceptions directly; that is to say perhaps for some reason they have become victimized by the philosophy of some culprit which utterly rejects or even deliberately twists and contradicts the abundantly clear teachings handed down to us by our Holy Mother Church: as in the case of the statement I quoted above at the beginning of this particular contribution to this conversation.
What we know for sure regarding our personal actual sins is exactly how it is that we can discern the level of our very own culpability regarding each. This informs our conscience as to when we may need to confess any specific sin or sins to a priest. And all this we can well know even perhaps long before our involving and employing the priest to do his duty on our behalf.
The bottom line here is that all we really obligatorily need from the priest in any specific case of having discerned privately that we have committed a particular Mortal Sin. Is for him to listen and to hear our confession in order for him, i.e., when we can tell and know the level of culpability that we have which informs our understanding as to exactly when a confession is obligatorily necessary; that is when we need a priest to validly administer to us on those particular occasions the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
God is Mercy!
