tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087443128769701074.post5785859602501437942..comments2023-05-20T08:15:32.309-07:00Comments on Somewhere in my Memory: What is Repentance?Mattityahuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05549061279827942555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087443128769701074.post-12300573237696772812007-09-02T18:46:00.000-07:002007-09-02T18:46:00.000-07:00Hey Gary,Thank you for commenting. I'm glad you en...Hey Gary,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for commenting. I'm glad you enjoy reading here. <BR/><BR/>I have always thought there was something that just didn't fit with the Church's definition of repentance, but I eventually brushed it off, thinking maybe I was just being soft on sin or something. But the idea of repentance being turning from your sin caused me to doubt my faith many times. I didn't know how to have assurance of my salvation, because I had absolutely no idea how sinless you had to be in order to have considered yourself repentant.Mattityahuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05549061279827942555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087443128769701074.post-46908163026582279172007-09-02T18:33:00.000-07:002007-09-02T18:33:00.000-07:00Daelon,I come to your blog often, but this is the ...Daelon,<BR/><BR/>I come to your blog often, but this is the first time I have commented. I think that you are right about repentance. It isn't possible for us to give up all or our sins, because we are sinful in ways that we don't even know about.<BR/><BR/>Repentance literally means to change your mind. In the case of salvation it means that we change our mind about our condition before God (dead in our trespasses and sins) and we change our minds about His provision (Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead so that we might receive His resurrected life). So, as you say, repentance is going from unbelief about our condition and His provision to belief.<BR/><BR/>In Christ,<BR/>GaryGary Kirkhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12870342469118915243noreply@blogger.com