sure.
repentance is an english word not in use during the time of Christ.
english was not created at babel by God but by peolpe with lets say not the best intentions.
repentance in our culture has a works backing to it. tell God your sorry and do your best to never do it again is this scriptural.
side note just so we stay on topic-confession of sin is great before God but we are not to be hypocritical before the Lord as in matthew 15:21-28 as the Lord would not deal with her till she quite trying to present herself as a jew but as a gentile.
repentance translated in greek is metanoia which means change of mind ok so lets add it in.
matthew 4:17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, "CHANGE YOUR MIND, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."
luke 5:32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to CHANGE OF MIND.
i could go on and on with this but we are to bring our thinking into alignment with the thinking of Gods that is repentance and that only. so faith and faith alone is to be in his finished work. its a mind and heart change and not works. a work would be trying to change your own behavior by trying to discipline ones self to not do a particular sin, this will never produce the fruit we desire because we as fallen beings and are incapable of overcoming sin. the Lord has overcomed and him only, so our repentance is accepting that grace which he has provided as a free gift and believing on it.
me personally in repentance.
lets say i have a sin i'm dealing with lust,addiction whatever if i try to stop just by disciplining myself it does not stop but sometimes even gets worse (if people are honest they will admit that is is true) but i know when i say Lord Jesus you do not have an issue with lust and as you are in heaven so am i in this world(for the kingdom heaven has come near) now my trust is in the one who has overcome and that sin diminishes and is dealt with by the master. the kingdom is Christ the word fully God and man. that is repentance.
john 10:28-29
Jesus gives them eternal life not by works but by faith or that mind set in who he is and no one can snatch them out of the fathers hand.
ephesians 2:8-9
we are saved by grace it is a gift and not by works.
ephesians 1:13
included in Christ upon hearing the gospel of salvation (faith through metanoia) and are marked with a seal.
revelation 3:5
how are we victorious through works of trying or by faith through metanoia. and are names will never be blotted out why? because we can never earn what is a free gift so how could we lose it. once he owns you he owns you and will complete that work in you because that is his purpose not ours. once again we do good works because he first loved us but those good works can never add to or assist in the salvation process because you and i can not save ourselves so when we try to it is a slap in the face of the one who paid the price.
i am osac and people on the other side will not answer my questions or scriptures i put forward as a whole but i try to answer whatever people ask me to the best of my ability.
just a side note when the priest would perform the blood sacrifice it was for the coming years sins not for the previous years sins. Christ being our high priest has cleansed us who are in faith with him for past present and future sins.
In order to save some time, is your whole point there we need not repent as in stop living in sin?
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