Catholic Confessional: Setting Men to Juggling with Sin

Romans 14
23 For whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

 

"Catholic doctrine is based on a low idea of sin, sets up an artificial

standard in place of the law of God, and in the confessional further supplies an invention which fosters a purely mechanical idea of getting rid of sin.
----The sincere Catholic may, in spite of the system, look beyond to God and open the heart to Him;

---- but the fact remains that the natural tendency of the system is to set men to juggling with sin, 

--balancing off the desire to sin 

--against the repugnance to doing penance."

E.J. Waggoner