The Sacrament of Confession in Scripture Part One
I. Introduction It is quite common in many Baptist circles to claim that nothing in Scripture teaches that we should confess our sins to a priest. As someone who was part of the Awana Program in various Baptist Churches when I was young, I began to learn about the books of the Bible and various passages of Scripture. Although I did not realize it at the time, my studies in Awana prepared me for the memorization of not only Scripture but also the doctrines of Christianity, which I study almost every day. Later, at about the age of thirteen, I began to study the history of Early Christianity. It was not long before I realized that the government of one pastor and multiple deacons had no origins in early Christian practice at all. In this post, I am going to set out to prove the Biblicity of confession before a priest.