Pope Francis allows chance of forgiveness to woman who have committed abortions for a limited time (Year of Mercy)

[Esiar]

twintail said:

Esiar said:

But I really don't think that makes much sense. To me it sounds contradictory. I don't see how they can believe that the blood of Christ washes away all your sins if you believe and that you have to ask a priest to get your sins absolved. 

I am not really sure how to effectively explain this. From my understanding it is like this:

1) God made Adam and Eve.

2) They made a mistake and ate the forbidden fruit. This was considered a sin, that would forever mean that everyone is born into sin, ie no one is perfect and without moral dillemma. 

3) To clense themselves of point 2, people had to sacrifice animals (the blood). That would give them a chance at going to Heaven. 

4) Christ was born, and his sacrifice was to negate the need to do point 3. Everyone is not able to go to Heaven.

5) While ppl can now go to heaven through Christ, that doesnt mean that the sins they committ are just automatically forgiven. 

washing away ppl's sins is washing away their inability to go to Heaven, It cleaneses the part of 'being born into sin', in that you cannot be perfect. Whereas any sin you comitt is still a sin and requires you t oask for forgiveness.

Since ppl dont sacrifice the animals anymore and therefore ask for forgiveness themselves at the same time, the process is now split into 2: Christ as the acrifice (no longer have to do) but asking for forgiveness still needs to be done. 

 

That is my understanding of how it works so the explanation is probably not entirely authentic. Hope this makes more sense .

I don't agree with you 100% on your understanding of it, but all of this works completely without the intervention of a Priest from what I see.