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  2. Confession (Lutheran Church) - Wikipedia

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    "Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession an enumeration of all sins is not necessary." —Augsburg Confession, Article 11 In the Lutheran Church, Confession (also called Holy Absolution) is the method given by Christ to the Church by which individual men and women may receive the forgiveness of sins; according to the Large Catechism, the "third sacrament ...

  3. Christian views on sin - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of sin is central to the Christian faith, since its basic message is about redemption in Christ. [2] Hamartiology, a branch of Christian theology which is the study of sin, [3] describes sin as an act of offence against God by despising his persons and Christian biblical law, and by injuring others. [4]

  4. Forgiveness - Wikipedia

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    Emperor Marcus Aurelius shows clemency to the vanquished after his success against tribes (Capitoline Museum in Rome). Forgiveness, in a psychological sense, is the intentional and voluntary process by which one who may have felt initially wronged, victimized, harmed, or hurt goes through a process of changing feelings and attitude regarding a given offender for their actions, and overcomes ...

  5. Absolution - Wikipedia

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    The Confession by Giuseppe Molteni, 1838. Absolution is a theological term for the forgiveness imparted by ordained Christian priests and experienced by Christian penitents.It is a universal feature of the historic churches of Christendom, although the theology and the practice of absolution vary between Christian denominations.

  6. Confession (religion) - Wikipedia

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    Confession of sins is made directly to God and not through man; the only exception is when confessing to a person is a required step in recompensing for the damage done. It is taught that sins are to be kept to oneself to seek individual forgiveness from God. God forgives those who seek his forgiveness and commit themselves not to repeat the sin.

  7. Penance - Wikipedia

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    With the delay of the expected Second Coming, there was a recognized need for a means of accepting back into the Christian community those who had been expelled for serious sins. In early Christianity , bishops declared that God had forgiven sins when it was clear that there was repentance, and the penitent was readmitted to the community. [ 5 ]

  8. Salvation in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Catholics believe faith which is active in charity and good works (fides caritate formata) can justify, or remove the burden of guilt in sin, from man. Forgiveness of sin exists and is natural, but justification can be lost by mortal sin. [23] [web 3] In the Protestant doctrine, sin is merely "covered" and righteousness imputed.

  9. Repentance in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In the Hebrew Bible, the term repentance comes from the Hebrew word group that means "turn away from". [5]: 1007 David Lambert believes that "It is in the writings of rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity that it attains the status of a technical term, a basic item of an emerging religious lexicon".