How often in scripture does Jesus say "I forgive you" vs how often he says "You are forgiven"?

"You are forgiven" is interesting, because it is not an action performed but a statement about the way of things. It is implicit in the statement that forgiveness is the natural state of things, and therefore also that there is nothing to forgive.

Which again is interesting to me, because I do not believe in the concept of sin. I think it is man made, as we tend to break up "what is" into duality, when the way things really are behind the illusion of duality is non-dual which is beyond such labels and concepts.

I think that God at the very least, is as forgiving as I am and if I can love and forgive myself, then so can he. Interestingly, a condition for loving and forgiving others is that one be able to love and forgive ourselves. "To love another, first you must learn to love yourself". Similarly, to forgive another, first you must learn to forgive yourself.

So, it is pointless and fruitless to ask for love and forgiveness from God while clinging to our own hate, judgemental nature, our pettiness and bigotry. It is instead something we give, and in the giving is also the receiving.

So in the saying "You are forgiven, go out and sin no more" seen through this lens means "There is no need for forgiveness, go out and do not think that sin exists again".

"The truth shall set you free" he said also. There is no freedom in the concept of sin. It binds a mans mind as effectively as chains bind the body, leaving the man confused about right and wrong.

Such confusion leads Isaiah to exclaim: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Such confusion leads to "holy" crusades, and ethnic cleansings. To arms races and environmental destruction. To materialism and greed.