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30. What is Confession?

30. What is Confession?

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V. How One Should Teach the Uneducated to Confess

Q. What is confession?

A. Confession has two parts:

First, a person admits his sin

Second, a person receives absolution or forgiveness from the confessor, as if from God Himself, without doubting it, but believing firmly that his sins are forgiven by God in Heaven through it.


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