Pride and prejudice.

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When we repent, we are forgiven because those sins were first forgiven at the cross. Our repentance is not the condition of forgiveness since Jesus' death on the cross won our forgiveness. This happened before we were born. Before we sinned. "having forgiven us all our trespasses" as the verse I quoted in Colossians says.

What a convoluted way to avoid an answer.