Why We Feel Guilt

"Guilt" isn't something that we are taught. It is something innate and inherit within the framework of our DNA. More particularly, our genetic memory.

We can't be told to feel guilty, and then suddenly feel guilt. Feelings aren't like that. They are completely internally composed, not externally manipulated. Even if your feelings are manipulated by external influences, it's because your consciousness has experienced whatever it is that invokes emotion.

The reason we experience guilt (and the reason some don't), is because our genetic memory sends signals of guilt when we sin. Those signals are genetic and spiritual reminders of the torture that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ endured on the cross. 

Every time we sin, guilt arises from the fact that God in the form of a man was tortured for those sins. We are wretched sinners who often take our sin for granted, which is where the feelings of guilt come from. It's literally God reminding you what he did for you. The idea is to release you from sin by forgiveness, yet we continually live a life of sin knowing that God shed his blood on the cross for that sin.

Furthermore, the DNA of Christ runs through the veins of his lineage. This is why the Bible so accurately records ancestry. If you're an Israelite, not only the spirit of the Lord is within your soul and consciousness, but his DNA resides in your genetic makeup. Those two things combine for not only your feelings of guilt, but your desire for repentance and forgiveness. Why else would you feel guilty and want to be relieved of that guilt? It's certainly not from drowning while crossing the seas, dying from famine or being killed in battle (although those things can also invoke genetic memory; e.g. the smell of the ocean, love of a certain food, etc).

Genetic memory is as real as cognitive memory. When you sin, if God's blood runs through your veins (or he has chosen to have mercy on you spiritually), you're reminded of his sacrifice. This is why you feel such guilt for your sin. And why you seek forgiveness from those sins. And why God in the form of a man came to bear that burden of sin for you, because he knows this is how he calls his lost sheep.

Matthew 15:24: I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.

Thank you God for sending your only son to be tortured physically for our sins so that we might be free from guilt by repenting and seeking eternal salvation through Jesus Christ. Although it is so terrible that we have to take comfort in our transgression by another's suffering, we know you did that because you loved us before the beginning of time.

All glory to God!