You should not have a doubletongue claiming only God can forgive sins then saying man forgive sins. Only God can forgive sins. Period. Because Christians have received the Holy Spirit we can inform people if they have been forgiven when they might not realize it. There is no intermediary priesthood. Every saint is royal priesthood. There are no priests or clerics and laity in the body of Christ. You're sitting on the great harlot of religious Rome. It's only verdict is utter destruction. Before 2020 a nuclear bomb-a dirty bomb-will blow up the Vatican. God allows Satan to do this, and Satan does this because religious Rome uses the name of Christ though worshiping a false Christ. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. Mary was born of the flesh so she has sinned. The Roman Church makes Mary sinless to gather women into its church for the effectively Quaternity at the same time while being abusive to women disallowing them in the ministry of Roman Catholicism. Totally twisted!

Let us next consider the case of Paul. Ananias says to Paul, “Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name” (Acts 22:16).

Paul is universally accepted as the foremost teacher and prophet and apostle in Christianity. What if there were some flaw in his experience as well as in his teaching? He is told not to tarry but to arise and be baptized. Why? To wash away his sins. The Roman Catholic Church errs here in changing this verse into a personal experience before God. They fail to see that this Scripture deals with the question of the world. Consequently they baptize dying people in order to wash away their sins. They do not recognize that baptism is related to the world instead of to God. But Protestants equally err in attempting to hide the verse.

Being formerly a person of the world, Paul, now that he has both believed and seen the Lord Jesus, should arise and be baptized. Thus baptized, his sins are washed away, for he has severed his relationship with the world. If one becomes a Christian secretly without being baptized, the world will still consider him one of its own. The believer may say he is saved, but the world will not accept his statement. Not until he is baptized does he compel the world to see his salvation. Who would be so foolish as to go into the water unless there were a good reason for it? Yes, as soon as a Christian is baptized he is freed from the world. Hence this water is linked to the world.

The world will still reckon a person one of its own if he does not give an outward expression of his inward faith. But let him be baptized, and he will immediately be known as having left the world. Consequently, baptism is the best way of separation. Through baptism the believer declares to the entire world that he has severed his relationship with it and has come out of it.