Confession of guilt in theological perspective For more than four decades (1948-1994) South African society was ravaged by a political dispensation of apartheid.This unjust system of legalised discrimination was widely typified as a sinful ideology and the Biblical justification of it as a heresy.It could be expected that the question would arise whether Christians, churches, politicians, Newborn Bib government and other socio-economic institutions which supported and implemented apartheid should openly confess their sins of participation and/or negligence in this regard.The author argues that a confession of guilt in the South African context can be substantiated from a Biblical perspective, from church history and from the Reformed confessions.
Confessions of guilt are an essential and indispensable part Warranty of Christian doctrine and Christian life.