Once again, NO EVIDENCE!!! Bibles were never "chained up in a basement" and that is clear prejudicial nonsense to think so.
They WERE chained in some areas, want to know why? So that people could READ THEM!! Amazingly, unlike today, not everyone HAD A BIBLE, so they were put in Public places, CHAINED THERE to keep them from being stolen, and people could read them. THAT IS A FACT.
As for Confession, Catholics who say they confess to a priest because they are afraid to go to God are being ridiculous. Confessing sins to a Priest IS CONFESSING THEM TO GOD. It is GOD who forgives the sins, it is the Priest standing in for Jesus, JUST LIKE JESUS TOLD HIM TO DO.
Jesus tell the Apostles "whose sins you forgive they are forgiven; whose sins you retain they are retained".
It does not get much more obvious than that. Not to mention the various times Christ tells them to do as HE HAS DONE, and what has Christ done? Forgiven sins, constantly.
Also, Jester, you continue to show your utter lack of knowledge in these matters. We are saved THROUGH GOD'S GRACE by Faith and Good Works. God's Grace is the most important part because without it, Faith and Works are useless. But a Protestant would tell you we are saved by God's grace through Fatih, even though James 2:14-26 explicitly condemns that notion.
And as for Augustine, I missed your comments on him because you comment on everything. He was a heretic. SO?! St. Ambrose converted Augustine, and over the thirty years of his life as a converted Christian, he wrote some of the Church's most beautiful works of that period, or any period in time.
And I would definitely appreciate it if you stopped insulting me. If your arguments are so weak that you rely on insults, stop posting anyway.
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