Release of guilt ONLY happens once we are FORGIVEN.
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Every born again person, in '2022, was FORGIVEN= 2000 yrs ago by God, based on Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross.
2 Corinthians 5:19 says that God was in Christ in the world not counting man's sins against them.
Yet heretics teach the opposite, and all say you need to confess sin to stay saved.
God says you dont in Romans 4:8 and 2 Corinthians 5:19.
1 John 1:9 is talking to unbelievers, and heretics live in that verse trying to keep themselves saved, instead of trusting in CHRIST to keep them saved.
So.....THE CROSS = because this forgiveness is completed by God, through Christ, its Eternal.
This is why Paul teaches that :
"""""There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."""
Let me explain the verse....
If you are born again, you have become "one with God, "in Christ", as : "the righteousness of God in Christ". = SPIRITUALLY.
So, as the born again EXIST Spiritually IN GOD, IN CHRIST, there is no judgment found against their sin, as it has all been resolved and forgiven by the sacrifice of God as Christ on the Cross
2000 yrs ago.
God does not hold the born again believer's Spirit guilty for sin, ever again.. Romans 4:8. = "no condemnation", and its the Born again Spirit that is the SON/Daughter of God. Not your body, as "the body is dead because of sin", and the FLESH, the "old man", "is crucified with Christ".
All that is left is your mind, that has to be '"renewed.", Paul teaches.
So, the religious but lost christian faker will never understand any of this... AND, if the believer does not understand any of this, and exists in the carnal mind that informs them that that are just a saved sinner, needing to confess another mistake, confess another work of the flesh, confess another sin........ then that is MENTAL CONDEMNATION that they will address = by trying to clear their inner GUILT by confession.