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.
As long as it doesn’t interfere with His integrity of Perfect Righteousness and Perfect Justice, and His Word, He is free to forgive as He chooses.
The Cross was all about Judgment, not forgiveness. Forgiveness is now possible because of Christ’s work on the Cross.
Consider the crowds who cursed and tempted Christ on His way to Calvary. He prayed to the Father to forgive them for they knew not what they did. They obviously weren’t righteous by Divine Standards in their behavior and their judgment, but He was still free to forgive them.
Conversely, there are those who are enemies of Christ, who believe they can take advantage of His mercy and still not be held accountable, yet still hate Christ and He has never known them. Obviously, the types of people who will not be saved will include this category of unbeliever.
IMHO, we are witnessing a cosmic panoply where not only the fallen angels will be sent to the lake of fire, but those who always reject his plan, will also become so heinously evil, that all of Creation will see no viable alternative for Creation to exist by God’s Plan without them being so condemned and placed there.
His Plan was brilliant in that we all were condemned before we were saved.