Before when I thought that I was supposed to feel regret and shame of my sins and do confessions daily, my internal view of God was that he would become distant if I did sins and I felt he became distant.
Now I know the true salvation message and I feel like God is there always.
But so do the people that do the repentance. They think they know God and that God is there.
I'm not sure how to understand God and how to know him to have a relationship with him when there are so many models to see Him through and all people seem to "know" him.