Deceiving God in Confession?

[RobS]

I'm feeling a bit bothered about going to Confession for a sin I don't believe is a sin. Even after confessing, I am willing to still do that sin over and over. I don't want to make any changes not to do this sin, if that makes sense.

But I feel like I'm going to confession under false pretenses and not truly repenting of the sin. There's a word that describes this but I can't remember what it was (some literature I read said this is akin to blasphemy).

I can argue and justify myself on why I think its not a sin, but what good will that pride do?

I want to be a faithful Orthodox Christian yet I don't want to be double-minded either.

Of course I am going to talk about this with my priest but curious if anyone here has felt the same and what they did about it.

Thanks.

 

[Agabus]

I confessed it and confessed I didn't believe it was a sin and didn't think it was so bad.

 

[RaphaCam]

I was through that feeling many times. This disturbed me greatly, but the solution seemed pretty easy: I just made this very clear in confession. "I did this and that, I know it was sinful, but it has taken my will. I haven't really repented and I don't feel like changing, but I want to because it disturbs my relationship with God." God already knew that and the priest sure had heard far worse things, so why hiding?

 

[WPM]

I think its just a general confession . . . Like saying "I confess my sins" ...