I speak very "to the point" and bluntly, but if I offended you I'm sorry, but your responses don't even make sense.
"Well., your life is no one's business here unless you make yourself a part of the thread so then people end up answering your question that you posted"
Well what I am saying isn't your, or anyone else's, business is my personal confessions to God. If I feel I have sinned and choose to, or not to, confess to God, how is that ANYONE ELE'S business? I'm not talking about this conversation, you seem to have missed my point completely here.
"So I answered your question because I just happen to be here at the time you posted. I have no idea what straw man debate you're talking about being pulled into. You came to this thread. No one pulled you in."
The straw man debate is setting it up like it's "have to confess" vs "do not confess at all", and I really don't think anyone is arguing for either. My point has only been "How is my walk, if I do or do not confess anything to God, how is this personal thing anyone's business at all? That, and I think the whole angle of "we shouldn't confess sin to God", a strange thing to focus on in general.
"The feetwashing thing is to be transformed by the renewing of our minds... that means what we thought in and of ourselves needs to get changed by reading the Word of God and being WASHED by the water of the Word to think RIGHT and not WRONG."
This I agree with fully, and I believe it is called sanctification. Part of my personal sanctification includes when I find myself doing what I know is wrong I turn to God and "confess" in my brokenness, thanking Him for showing me and for being a forgiving God. I feel that you are saying I am wrong to do this, I say how it "that" your concern at all. I believe I'm saved, I don't think my confessing is needed or necessary, I am just lead to do this. Can you tell me I'm wrong to do so? If not then you understand, and this is my biggest point.
"God's thoughts need to become our thoughts... and we DAILY need that kind of "washing of the water of the Word" to learn to think differently than we did BEFORE we read the Word of God. And so., so we ARE being transformed by the renewing of our minds. That is the washing we need and get when we submit to the Holy Spirit and the Word of God."
I agree, and that is how He works in me every day, molding me into Him image more every day. Again I can't see how my personal confession to God contradicts any of this. In my life it's a part of it.