Why do Catholics believe that you are supposed to confess your sins to a mortal man?

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Why do Catholics believe that you are supposed to confess your sins to a mortal man? And that he can forgive them? Isn’t that putting a human above other humans as if he were a god? Where in the Bible is this commanded?
 
Jesus told the apostles, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (John 20:23). These words presume confession: Before an apostle could decide whether to forgive or to retain a sin, he would need to know what the sin was and assess the sinner’s contrition.

There is evidence of confession in The Acts of the Apostles: “Many also of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices” (Acts 19:18).

See also:
Forgiveness of Sins
Confession
 
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