Bartleby reasons that entering the church in New Jersey will automatically forgive all of their sins, as total remission of sins had been granted to whomever visited that specific church on a specific date, thus allowing them to return to Heaven.
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In his instructions to the children, Enoch repeatedly encourages them to bring the gifts before the face of God for the remission of sins, a practice which appears to recall well-known sacrificial customs widespread in the Second Temple period.
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This conviction is mainly centered around the baptismal formula mandated in : " Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost ".
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They point out that Jesus " himself said, as he committed to the Apostles the Divine Eucharist during the Last Supper,'This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins'."
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The main altar of the church also has an Indulgence attached to it by Pope Leo XIII in 1896, granting temporal remission of sins at the time of death for those Catholics saying the specific prayers, and dying in the state of grace.
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With its origins in Germany, the modern movement is popularly considered to have begun in 1517 when Luther published his Ninety-five Theses as a reaction against abuses in the sale of indulgences, which purported to offer remission of sin to their purchasers.
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In Reformed sacramental theology, the sign ( in the case of baptism the external washing with water ) may be described in terms of the thing signified ( regeneration, remission of sin, etc . ), because of the close connection between them.
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Based on this criterion, given that John baptised for the remission of sins, and Jesus was viewed as without sin, the invention of this story would have served no purpose, and would have been an embarrassment given that it positioned John above Jesus.
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God's forgiveness, he argued still further, could not be purchased, and that the grant of remission of sins for killing fellow Christians was'an affront to Christ .'Clio the Muse 00 : 28, 12 October 2007 ( UTC)
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The pension was an annual one of 100 marks, and was to be taken from Brechin episcopal revenues; one indult allowed Patrick to continue wearing episcopal vesture, while the other was an indult for plenary remission of sins, indicating that Patrick expected death.
