Some churches, and even secular places, now provide the ability to confess sins online. It seems like there may be both positive and negative elements in this.
The positive element is that our sinful culture is at least admitting its wrongdoing. We are a sinful, selfish, self-indulged people, and at least many of us know it.
The negative element is that it isn't really confession. There is no absolution for sins, because those sins are not presented to a person made in the image of God. A computer is not a human. So, the best this can offer is psychological absolution. I don't want to mimize this, but it isn't the type of confession outlined in the book of James (chapter 5). Sin should also be confessed directly to God (Psalm 51). But, confessing sin to a computer or to other people doesn't go as far as it needs to.
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