God said that He is the only one who can forgive sins.
Q.What is the bases for man forgiving another man his sins since both are sinners? How can one sinner forgive another sinner? It is impossible.
Q. Are you as righteous as God to think that you can forgive someone their sins?
Are you the offened party who that can forgive what someone else has done to you?
Q. Is there any record in the Bible of anyone ourside of God forgiving another person their sins?
Q. Is there ny record in the Bible other in salvation that someone said thier sins are forgiven that is out side of salvation.
Q. How can you forgive someone elses sins until you know that yours are forgiven first?
Q. How can man know for sure that his sins are forgiven?
D.L.,
Take a deep breath. Slow down. Put your Protestant bias on a shelf for awhile. Say a prayer, read this slowly and THINK! The key word here is THINK.
Jesus Christ instituted the sacrament of penance as the normative way to forgive sins. In the early Church, penitents had to confess their sins orally before the Church assembly. In Acts 19:18 Luke writes, "Many also of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices’ before the apostles. This verse alludes to the practice of the early Church, where people had to confess their sins publicly. The disciples of John the Baptist also confessed their sins to John as he baptised them in the Jordan River.
Over time the administration of the sacrament gradually evolved to allow the penitent to privately confess sins to the priest. We see evidence of this at the end of the of the first millennium. Thus, today, the sacrament is administered by having the penitent privately confess his sins to a priest. The priest gives the penitent a penance (prayers or works of charity) and gives the penitent absolution, which is the priestly act of forgiving the sins “IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.”
Are you with with me so far?
Non-Catholic Christians immediately look at this and, like the scribes and Pharisees, say, “But only God forgives sins!” They are correct. However, when Catholics confess their sins to a priest in this sacrament, they ARE confessing their sins to God. ONLY GOD CAN FORGIVE SINS, BUT HE DECIDES HOW HE WANTS US TO OBTAIN THAT FORGIVENESS.
Do you get it? Do you understand?
Jesus Christ gave His apostles the authority to bind and loose as we have stated numerous times to you on this thread giving you the Scriptural evidence. He entrusted them His power to forgive sins. This is why Jesus emphasized the He forgave sins as a man, when He says, “But that you may know that Son of man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Just as God entrusted the forgiveness of sins to Jesus as a man, so Jesus entrusts the forgiveness of sins to His apostles and their successors, as men. Hence, in explaining the gift of forgiving sins, Matthew writes that God, “had given such authority to men.” (Matthew 9:8)
Forgiveness of sin depends on the sinner’s desire to be forgiven (a desire that is expressed aloud, as the apostles could not read the minds of the penitents). If oral confession were not required, the way that Jesus granted the gift to the apostles would not make any sense. Hence, John says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). In describing this priestly gift, Paul says that God “gave us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18).
YA FOLLA ME? :hey_bud:
I’m going to have to use it on one of my protestant friends that reminds me of our friend DL! 
Thanks!