21:22 05-06-2018
Belief in the forgiveness of sins seems to aggravate rather than assuage the sense of guilt, and the more these people repented and confessed, the more they were embarrassed to go creeping to Jesus again and again for his pardon. They feel simply terrible about drawing so heavily on the merits of the cross, infinite as they might be, and idealized being good children in their paternalistic universe…
Alan Watts