But the grace of the sacrificed life of Jesus the grace of his blood continually purifies our conscience through the Holy Spirit. Again and again, grace purifies it from all dead works and all offensive actions, from everything that violates the justice and love that go hand in hand with faith. The spirit of Jesus Christ leads believers to a life that steadily increases in clarity. And yet the believer continues to be bound to all others by a common guilt. Nevertheless, this guilt has been wiped out.
People have the freedom to do good and to avoid evil and to fight it.
Step by step, there is an advance toward the kingdom of God. In the life of Jesus, God gave us the gift that takes one burden after another from our conscience. It makes us free, without making us sinless. We do not become gods, but we allow the kingdom of God to come to us. We can accept God s will in our life only when we are freed from the curse of a bad conscience.