NSFW Anon Archived Unless You Stop Loving Sin: Repentance is a change of perception and direction (QRV)
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NSFW Anon Archived Unless You Stop Loving Sin: Repentance is a change of perception and direction (QRV)
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[–] 16983540? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
As others have correctly noted, repentance is a change of mind, a turning. But also remember it is not perfection, sinlessness, like some once for all victory over sin and temptation. Sinfulness remains as long as the body of flesh remains in its unglorified state, in an unglorified creation.
But repentance and faith does mean that God - as he has revealed himself in his justice and his mercy in the person, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus for us - is our ultimate allegiance over and against anything in this world. Yes the struggle with sin is real and will continue, but it is promised "He who began a good work in you will see it through to completion on the day of Jesus Christ." because God grants new life in his Spirit bearing the fruits of love and charity; the one who is given new life will begin to express that life just as surely as a newborn baby breathes, cries, squirms, feeds, etc.
I thoroughly appreciate the way the Heidelberg Catechism ( text states it in a Q&A format for new believers in the gospel in the 16th century:
and then skipping ahead to Q&A 88-90:
[–] 16984118? ago
Man's doctrine.
What does the Word say?
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
"For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I."
"If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good."
"Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."
"For I know that in me ( that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but HOW to perform that which is good I find not."
"For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do."
"Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."
"I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me."
"For I delight in the law of God after the inward man."
"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
"O wretched man that I am!!!! who shall deliver me from this body of death?"
"I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
"So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin."
"There is, therefore, NOW, no condemnation to them which ARE IN Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit."
"For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh."
"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit."
"This I say then, WALK IN THE SPIRIT....."
[–] 16990217? ago
No contradiction