Guilt

In the Urantia Book

Failure to resolve this problem gives origin to the earliest type of human guilt feelings. 103:5.4
The sense of guilt (not the consciousness of sin) comes either from interrupted spiritual communion or from the lowering of one’s moral ideals. 103:4.3
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. 174:1.4
The sense or feeling of guilt is the consciousness of the violation of the mores; it is not necessarily sin. 89:10.3-4

Be not downcast by our failure wholly to forget some of our regrettable experiences. 156:5.8
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. 103:4.4
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. 156:2.7

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. 70:10.5-7

Peter felt heavy of heart and crushed with the sense of guilt after denying Jesus (184:2.8-9,13)

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

If confess sins, they are forgiven 156:2.7 — Ps 32:5; Pr 28:13; Mt 3:6; Mk 1:5; Acts 19:18; Jm 5:16; 1 Jn 1:9.
Keep conscience void of offense 156:2.7 — Acts 24:16.