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> you simply can't reach salvation and union with God without starting from right morals. If you are willing to confess your sin and repent for your mistakes w
by shapefrog 4y ago
> you simply can't reach salvation and union with God without starting from right morals.
If you are willing to confess your sin and repent for your mistakes with godly sorrow, God will forgive your trespasses.
Even the most handsy of trespassing priests is forgiven.
- zozbot234 4y agoYes, but true repentance and sorrow is taken to involve concrete steps, such as doing restitution and changing one's actions in the future. Confession and repentance are not separate from a path towards purification.
- shapefrog 4y agoOr saying 10 Hail Marys.
- zozbot234 4y agoMantras, sutras, verses etc. are similarly used in Buddhism, as an instrument of focused thinking. It's not either/or, it's both.
- shapefrog 4y agoI may be wrong, but as far as I know Buddhists dont typically use "focused thinking" to give themselves permission from the almighty to bang a choir boy.