Question: How does a man end up with a clean slate of honor?
Lets say a man was a thief. He may be able to seek and find God. Given he found God, he may have been suddenly saved. Part of a process of sanctification, through the Spirit of God, he may have had to ask forgiveness and/or give back what he stole. He may have to pay some sort of penance. In The Body of Christ, he may have caused hurt and darkness. He may have to work to fix that hurt and darkness?
A man who murdered someone, and is in jail may be able to find God. He still may have created some hurt in society, or the Body of Christ. He may have to pay the penance, finishing his prison sentence, the penance given to him by society. Given he paid his penance, and was released, should his sin follow him around? No. He paid for his crimes correct?
The Body of Christ
Christians are a Body of Christ. When they take communion they eat of the body and drink of the blood. In the Body, some are the hands, some the feet, some the mouth, some the eyes. Some are Apostles, some are Prophets, some are Pastors, some are Evangelists. We all have a function in the Body. A society of believers. We are a Body of Christ, an Organic Society. (Ephesians 4:11-16)
Where this is profound for teachers and understanding:
Atomism - A belief that society is made up of a collection of self-interested and largely self-sufficient individuals or atoms, rather than social groups. (Liberal Belief on Society)
Organicism - A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts. (Conservative View on Society.)
(“Political Ideologies An Introduction” Third Edition by Andrew Heywood.)
Given your left hand causes you to sin, cut it off. Being cut off, may be an exile or excommunication. Given there is sin, and a problem, that sin needs to be addressed.
Young women at a Church Youth group gets a boyfriend. She really loves him and would like that perfect marriage. She did something wrong, and was in sin, and he left her. She is now a hurt woman. Given that is not addressed, she may have potentially worked to sabotage her friends, and their relationships and do wicked things. She may have a bad attitude. There would be a wound there in the Body of Christ, and it would need to be fixed so it does not fester.
Someone with an Atomistic view of society may have liked to have the false belief that their actions have no effect on others. They may have had the false belief that their actions influence nobody. Why? They were in sin, and are non-repentant, and they, to live with themselves, they may have needed false ideology. Hillary Clinton, for example, was a Conservative Republican. She became a Feminist and follower of Saul Alinsky. What happened? She wasn't married until her late 20's, and went to college in the middle of a sexual revolution and a lot of debauchery around her peers. Was being in sin, and unrepentant something that changed her and how she viewed the world?
There is a process of sanctification someone may experience growing in Faith with God. Someone's honor may need to be clean. God is a Judge. He is Your Honor or The Honorable.