08-04-2025, 01:39 PM
I like your interpretation and it makes sense, yet the traditional reading, also as grounds for Sacrament of Confession still remains, and if it were to be wrong, that makes a big problem, because it's Catholicism 101, if the Church is wrong on that, then what else it is wrong on and is it even the True Religion?
I feel like I have to give the 2000 years of Tradition the benefit of the doubt on this one, and even if acknowledging your reading as probably correct, still believe that what the Church binds is bound, but, the case of Manfred, shows that this scripture needs to be put in some context. Something like the context of who fundamentally God is and His attributes.
I feel like I have to give the 2000 years of Tradition the benefit of the doubt on this one, and even if acknowledging your reading as probably correct, still believe that what the Church binds is bound, but, the case of Manfred, shows that this scripture needs to be put in some context. Something like the context of who fundamentally God is and His attributes.