Having one's "guilt swept away", means that you no longer feel inner turmoil when your sins are spoken of. It means you care more about repairing the damage and making sure others don't commit the same abuses.
Peter's sins are openly spoken of in the Bible. There was no whitewashing.
Paul's sins are openly spoken of in the Bible. There was no whitewashing.
Whitewashing is not any part of the repentance process.
Just as a reformed gang member openly speaks of the fact they were a gang member, and campaigns to help others who would fall into the trap of gangs, so are others who reform.
If that reformed gang member were to persecute anyone who told the truth about them, then they are hiding their sins, not reforming and not repenting.
As long as someone is trying to hide and silence the past, there is no repentance.
Huge difference!
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