2006-10-16 04:36:09 · 13 answers · asked by peggy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Repentance means knowing that one sinned and committed mistakes, and one regrets it. True repentance means you've learned from those mistakes, and won't make them again. If it's temporary, and you do it again, it means you did not really repent.
2006-10-16 04:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear Rose,
If you have a Concordance (lists every word in the Bible and the Scriptures where it is found), you will find that repentance is intertwined with salvation. Just as no person can do anything to get themselves saved, so no person can truly repent. Remember what the Bible tells us about Esau after he sold his birthright to Jacob. He sought repentance with strong crying but could not obtain it. Esau never became saved. When the Lord saves a person, they have an inner hatred of sin because it is rebellion against God. The believer or child of God has a hunger for the word of God--he hungers and thirsts after righteousness--and desire to be obedient to everything that the Lord says. Sin becomes disgusting and abhornet to a child of God and when a believer does sin it makes them feel terrible. The child of God will beg the Lord for deliverance from that particular sin even if it requires chastisement (discipline).
When the unsaved person sins, it does not bother him and he continues to go on in life sinning. When confronted with his sin, he will defend himself saying that everyone else is doing it. Or he may think that sin is a joke (make fun of it).
2006-10-16 12:20:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If repentence is sincere, it means turning away from that sin. This is why Jesus forgave the adulterer in John, chapter 8, and then commanded her to "leave her life of sin."
Of course, sometimes we as humans repent in our hearts, and then fall into the same temptation again later on down the road. Overcoming temptation is a process that happens successfully as we are transformed by God's love....it is not always immediate. Fortunately, God's patience and mercy is so deep that he allows us so much freedom to make mistakes and still accepts us back over and over again....
2006-10-16 11:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Repenting theoretically means you're never supposed to commit the sin again however Some sins are easier to never commit again than others. I think the idea is never stop trying to reach the mark.
2006-10-16 11:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The intent of repentence is to turn away from evil permanently. However, being human and weak, we often do succumb to temptation again, even after repenting sincerely. That's why repentence is a lifelong process, not a one time event.
2006-10-16 11:40:19 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're only truly repenting if you're truly sorry. God knows the truth. If you're truly sorry, it's unlikely that you'll do the same exact thing again, but we all have our struggles don't we? Better to be honestly working on them than indulging in them. Sin almost always has negative effects on our lives as we live them as well as in the afterlife.
2006-10-16 11:43:24 · answer #6 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 corinthians 6:9 What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God's kingdom? Do Not be misled.
Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers nor men kept for unnatural purposses, nor men who lie with men. Nor thieves nor greedy persons, nor drunkards nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God's kingdom.
11. Yet that is what some of you were, but you have been washed clean. You have been sanctified and you have been declared righteous.
The bible says we all sin many times but we ask for forgiveness and he realizes we are just dust and he forgives us.
but don't do it with the idea, I can do this and be forgiven.
that is not being truly sorry.
2006-10-16 11:43:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you repent of your sins, the idea is to turn away from your sins and to keep from repeating them, so no! when you repent ,you are to avoid repating the sin you commited it's suppose to be permeant. God's not mocked, and why would you want to repat it , if you love someone which includes God and Jesus you don't and shouldn't want to keep hurting them.
2006-10-16 11:44:05 · answer #8 · answered by Mary S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Repent means to turn away. If we turn away from what we are repenting, we would be turning away from repeating the action, thought, deed, word, etc.
2006-10-16 11:38:42 · answer #9 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The premise is you repent and sin no more. However I do not know anyone who can never sin.
2006-10-16 11:40:58 · answer #10 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋