For me, that is part of it, but it is more than that too. You have to stop doing the thing that is a sin, feel genuine sorrow for the sin, make restitution if possible, and ask for forgiveness. Repentance is certainly a process, but it's not a simple one.
What is involved in repenting of your sins, as you see it?
2006-08-20 11:37:22 · 12 answers · asked by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christian_lady: I agree. I also think there are some things that are challenges for us our whole lives. For me it's overeating. This doesn't excuse me from not trying to overcome it, because I can/have learned a lot already from having this specific challenge. I think we just have to keep pressing forward, doing all we can to live righteously and accept the gift of the Atonement, trusting that Christ will make up the difference in the end.
2006-08-20 11:52:25 · update #1
Horatio: I believe we all DID come here on purpose, and with a purpose. We were excited to come to earth to prove ourselves. So I agree with you in part. Since we came here on purpose with a purpose, it is expected of us to repent.
2006-08-20 11:58:02 · update #2
As I see it, my repentance is like yours... it is more than just saying "sorry"... it is doing something about it and really trying to change your life around so that you will not do it again... and making restitution if possible.. if not to the original person .. then to someone else.
2006-08-20 11:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The exact same thing you have just mentioned. Someone can repent all they want, but if they really don't mean it, and keep doing the same sin, then it is not really repenting. You have to strive to be as Christ like as possible and ask for forgiveness with true repentence.
2006-08-20 18:43:42 · answer #2 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Repentance means turing away from sin. It doesn't mean saying your sorry and then continuing to do that sin.
Now there are some things I do, that I don't like and it's hard for me to break the addiction. I would call overeating, specifically sweets, an addiction! But I truly do want to stop doing things that aren't right, either for my body or my spiritual well being. God knows the difference. He knows if we are struggling and desire to stop sinning....or if we're abusing His grace and merely making "I'm sorry" be a lip service.
2006-08-20 18:42:18 · answer #3 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Repentance is to confess to JESUS your sins, and then turning your life around.
It involves "change". Turning away from Sin, and as you become a Christian, and accpt JESUS CHRIST as your Saviour, you "put on CHRIST"...
People should see a change in you. They should be able to take notice, that you have turned away from sin and are on a new path to righteousness... You are traveling with the LORD, when you accept HIM into your life!
Repenting is a newness of life! An affirmation that you have sloughed off the "old shell" and accpted CHRIST as your Saviour....
You become a Brother or Sister in CHRIST.
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-08-20 18:45:27 · answer #4 · answered by x 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel sorry for anything and neither should anyone else because it is not any of our faults that we are here on purpose (or so it seems). If we did come here on purpose and then failed to fulfill that purpose or worked at fulfilling a counter-purpose, then repentance should not only be required, it should be expected.
2006-08-20 18:46:56 · answer #5 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Repent" means to turn away from something. If you repent of your sins, that means you stop doing them. If you don't try to stop doing them, then you obviously didn't repent. Asking for forgiveness at that point becomes something of a mockery. -yk
2006-08-20 18:46:41 · answer #6 · answered by Yaakov 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turning away from the sin that you are sorry you committed is repentance.
2006-08-20 18:44:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to genuinely be sorry for the transgression and make an honest effort not to backslide
2006-08-20 18:43:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope thats pretty much it.
2006-08-20 18:42:58 · answer #9 · answered by gymnastxo8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is doing something different!
2006-08-20 18:42:39 · answer #10 · answered by timjim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋