i've started to get more religous.
they use that word a LOT.
idk what it means
2007-08-22 12:09:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pretty simple, but, people make it complicated.
Ever get something wrong on a math paper?
Repenting is figuring out that you made a mistake and then deciding that you are going to try to stop making that mistake.
Life is kind of like school. There are people who want to put you down, punish you and make you feel bad. Then there are people who just want to teach you so you know the right way to do things.
In Christianity there is no punishment for Christians because we admit that we make mistakes (sin) and then we learn from those mistakes and stop making them (repent). Christians are people who become better every day.
We are not perfect, just forgiven. We don't know everything, we are always learning. We are not the best, we are becoming better every day.
2007-08-22 12:46:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A person shows true repentance by abandoning a wrong course and putting forth a determined effort to do what is right. On the basis of genuine repentance, even a person who has acted as wickedly as King Manasseh can receive God's forgiveness.
Repentance is another prerequisite for baptism. To repent means to “change one’s mind with regard to past (or intended) action, or conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction,” or to “feel regret, contrition, or compunction for what one has done or omitted to do.” First-century Jews needed to repent of their sins against Jesus Christ. (Acts 3:11-26) Some believers in Corinth repented of fornication, idolatry, adultery, homosexuality, stealing, greed, drunkenness, reviling, and extortion. As a result, they were “washed clean” in Jesus’ blood, were “sanctified” as those set apart for God's service, and were “declared righteous” in the name of Jesus Christ and with the spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) So repentance is a step toward a good conscience and God-given freedom from plaguing guilt over sin.
What true repentance requires. Repentance involves both mind and heart. The wrongness of the course or act must be recognized, and this requires an acknowledgment that God’s standards and will are righteous. Ignorance or forgetfulness of his will and standards is a barrier to repentance.
2007-08-22 14:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change your mind (about sin). Agree with God that you are a sinner. Presumably, repenting leads to living a different kind of life than before repenting. When born again, a person is a new creature with a different view of life which is more attuned to what the Lord wants.
2007-08-22 12:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Cee T 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Repentence means to turn things around ... to turn a way from that which is sinful.
Anyone who expects God to forgive them for sin must be authentically sorry for their sins, and must also make a concerted, good faith effort to repent.
Catholics have a big advantage here, because they have a powerful sacrament which makes up for much of what the individual might lack, typically resulting in immediate and absolute forgiveness of sins, courtesy of Jesus, his priest, and the church.
Those who prefer to apologize to God directly, won't know for sure whether he's accepted their apology, until Judgment Day.
2007-08-22 13:05:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
To repent means to make a 180 degree turn in life. It means agreeing with God that your life until now hasn't been what it should be. It means admitting to God that He has not been no. 1 in your life and consciously making Him so. The result of repentance is forgiveness of sins through Christ, life of peace and in harmony with God as His child.
God bless,
jack
2007-08-22 12:19:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
True repent to leave the sin
But complete repent is to hate the sin
2007-08-22 12:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by Mosa A 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Repent means not to repeat a sin that you have committed when you know that it is wrong to do, and ask for complete forgiveness...almost like a promise to God that you won't do it again!!
2007-08-22 13:59:10 · answer #7 · answered by Linda M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Turn away from with a true heart, when you sin and the Lord convicts you heart and you repent away from that sin and do it no more.
2007-08-22 14:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by Fisherofmen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literally, repent means to turn around and go in the opposite direction.
On the road to sin? Turn around and go back!
It simply means that you have stopped doing that sin.
2007-08-22 12:20:18 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To stop the sin that you are doing and ask God to forgive you for it. And then never attempt to do that sin again. Hence the passage of " go and sin no more".
2007-08-22 12:19:35 · answer #10 · answered by Kathy H 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋