You do not know that I have not been forgiven anymore than you know that you have for the sins you have yet to commit. We are only forgiven for the sins we have confessed and asked forgiveness for. Belief is not enough. Even Satan and the fallen angels believe that Jesus is the son of God, but they are not saved. It is what we do with that belief that matters. If you do not adhere to the first and second Greatest commandments your belief is for naught.
"Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. - 1 John 5:1-4
What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. - James 2:14-26
The entire New Testament is Christ telling His family they have been forgiven their sins by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
RCs don’t have this assurance. Instead they return to the Lord’s Supper and ask forgiveness for the week’s sins, over and over and over.
Rome concocted penance (ongoing forgiveness with strings attached) to keep its members thethered to Rome.
RC admit they have no assurance of forgiveness. Very sad. Therefore RCs do not understand the New Testament. Practically every other line Christ spoke is “Your sins have been forgiven.”
Christ knows. I know. You should know, too. Not to believe Jesus shows a distrust of Christ’s promises.
And as far as future sins being forgiven, I and all believers have been bought with a great price and our sins have been marked “paid in full.”.
Of course my future sins have been forgiven and this gracious fact compels me to want to sin less and less. The RCC has no understanding of sanctification.
Once justified, always justified. The RCC can think it can renege on its promises but Christ never does.
The RCC misses so much.