Saved as in possessing a regenerated human spirit and a new man in him, which has been sealed by God the Holy Spirit.
We still have a scarred soul (nous) which can effect our heart in our behavior.
There is now a portion of us which is veritable, namely that which God has breathed into us in our regenerate spirit. That is the starting point by which He is able to slowly cleanse the rest of us.
If we fall out of fellowship, we still have the human spirit, but we become tainted in our perspective. Until we turn back to Him, we don’t have a veritable resource upon which to rely, because we now approach Him from the perspective of guilt, instead of fellowship. When we confess our sins to Him, we are performing an action of the heart, a part of the soul, which now faces back to Him and He is one that forgives, because He is free to forgive and by His grace forgives us through faith in Christ and His work on the Cross.
Thanks very much for your reply.
I really don’t see how it responds to: “wouldn’t your theology allow for a saved person without repentance?”
And the same question for - absent confession - forgiveness, etc.