Failure to resolve this problem gives origin to the earliest type of human guilt feelings. [1] The sense of guilt. [2]
The child, being immature and lacking in the fuller understanding of the depth of the child-father relationship, must frequently feel a sense of guilty separation from a father’s full approval, but the true father is never conscious of any such separation. [3] The sense or feeling of guilt is the consciousness of the violation of the mores; it is not necessarily sin. [4]
Be not downcast by our failure wholly to forget some of our regrettable experiences. [5]
Jesus destroyed the basis of all this fictitious guilt and sense of isolation in the universe by declaring that man is a child of God; the creature-Creator relationship was placed on a child-parent basis. [6]
Said Jesus: “My disciples must not only cease to do evil but learn to do well; you must not only be cleansed from all conscious sin, but you must refuse to harbor even the feelings of guilt. [7]
The Old Testament records one of these ordeals, a marital guilt test: Their early methods of detecting crime consisted in conducting ordeals of poison, fire, and pain. [8]
Peter felt heavy of heart and crushed with the sense of guilt after denying Jesus. [9]