if you were to help defend this question?

Question

okay, so in my Bible study, theres a book we're using, and one of the statements/questions does not truly state what it should state. the question asks, "if you do sin, how can you renew your fellowship with Him?"
the real answer should be through repentance, but i can't fnd any passages about repentance like this.
the passage to help you answer the question is 1 John 1:9, which only says to confess but i don't think thats right.
anyone have any passages that can show me that repentance is necessary to renew your fellowship with God?
thanks

Answer 1

Confess your sins to God.

Repent means to turn from your sinful nature.

Although we have turned from our sinful nature, doesn't mean we will not stumble into sin.

So we confess our sins To God and have fellowship with Him.

Answer 2

As to an exact match for what you are asking to renew your fellowship with God, I could not find immediately, but read Revelation chapters 2 and 3. Basically Jesus is saying that you must repent not only to renew your relationship with God, but simply because sin is wrong, and God shuns sin. So it is implied that in order to stay in God's good grace, repentance in the name of the Son is the only way.

I ran across a scripture in the Old Testament Micah 7: 18-19. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

There is no necessity to renew your friendship with God, I know it sounds wierd but when you come to Christ you become a new creature and old things are passed away, the Bible also says that God is married to the backslider, it means that even when you sin God is still there, even if you don't say you're sorry. He is always your friend and he will always have a relationship with you no matter what you do. Instead, I feel repenting and saying we're sorry is a way for us to forgive ourselves. There is a part in the Bible I think relevant for today, 'He was wounded for my transgressions, he was bruised for my iniquities'. The thing needed to take away our sin from his sight is already there, we're forgiven no matter what we do, that's why we need only confess our sin. Just like a parent with a naughty child who already knows what the child has done, but wants them to admit it. His love for us is bigger than any sin we can commit and he made it easy for us to get forgiveness so why do we feel it has to be harder than it really is?

Answer 4

Mark 1:15 Luke 13:5 Acts 3:19 There is more

Answer 5

In verse 9 when you confess it, You are agreeing with God that you sinned and through confession you are cleansed. (This is for the ones who are already believers) versus repentance which is a change in mindset and ways. This is for the one who is coming to God or for a believer that has fallen away from God. ...However, to make it easier to understand, you could use repentance and confession interchangeably.

Answer 6

Try Psalm:116 &119

Answer 7

As it's bible study i assume the book you are using is the bible.
Are you actually questioning the bible?
If so ,you have just taken the first step towards freedom

Answer 8

In the Gospel of John (20:21-23) there is the introduction into the New Covenant of the Sacrament Catholcs call Reconciliation. It was given only to the Hierarchy, and was never rescinded later on. Here the LORD breathed a giving of the SPIRIT distinct from that which they waited for in Jerusalem, which was recieved by all the Church alike (Acts chapter 2). This is the Absolution of sins that the Confession of sins in 1 John 1:9 is joint with as a single Sacrament. It requires Repentance, as I show in a moment. The reason it says GOD is faithful and just to forgive those that make this auricular Confession, is that they have humbled themselves before those HE breathed the SPIRIT into for the Absolution of sins, and it is an act of Faith and a work of Repentance, and, being a Sacrament established to reconcile the Baptised to Communion with CHRIST, according to the Covenant, HE honors HIS own Covenant and rewards our covenantal penance. James the LORD's brother said that GOD opposes the proud but gives Grace to the humble, and that the one submitting to GOD can resist the devil, and the devil will flee from such a one (James 4:6-10). The humility of the one Passage parallels that of not denying sins committed in the other. The word for Confession means a spoken one, and in order for the Apostles to have absolved or retained sinners' guilt, they needed to know what sins they were dealing with, to responsibly administer to all his rightful treatment according to the Covenant which is the Working of CHRIST through HIS own SELF-Sacrifice for our salvation, with which we must cooperate, or be accounted betrayers of CHRIST. 1 John addresses both those in a State of Grace, and describes the proper Christian Life as sinless, and those in need of Repentance, whom he tells to live like the former.

JESUS HIMSELF said that if one remembers that another has something against him, he must leave his Gift at the Altar, and go and make right that with which he offended his brother (Matthew 5:23,24). HE also said that if a brother sins against you, and you can't work it out with him, he must be taken before the Church - and obviously, in light of the Apostles being given Authority to bind and to loose, and to forgive or not forgive sins, this means some Hierarchy through whom the Authority of the Church is manifested (Mat. 18:15-17). [HE was only addressing HIS Apostles on this occasion.] JESUS' Baptism had to be preceded by John's Baptism of Repentance. John said JESUS' was greater than his. HE said that the recipients of JESUS' Baptism would belong to a generation that would be separated into parts, the repentant to be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, the unrepentant to be destroyed (Mat. 3:1-12). JESUS told Nikodemos he must be baptised (and those entering it must put aside all transgression); those that happen to sin though baptised, if they confess to recieve the Sacrament of Reconciliation, as in 1 John, only require it because they soiled their Baptismal Seal. Thus, in order for it to restore them to their first Christian state as through Baptism, they need again to put aside all transgression. (See Hebrews 6:1-9, which mentions in the correct order for those converting to CHRIST, repentance from dead works, and placing Faith in CHRIST, then Baptism, then Confirmation [just as waited for by the newly baptised, and travelled a long distance to be bestowed by the Apostles, in Acts 8:12-17], and so on. This laying on of hands is when the Baptised were anointed with Oil, this being the Anointing given to the fully catechised and baptised, mentioned in 1 John 2:27.)

Answer 9

I believe here confession would be repenting.