The word "repentance" - metanoia as been shown by others simply in the original greek means " to change the mind. to change our thinking - ".
To us it means to change our mind to stop relying on ourselves and our thinking and turn to God. Stop living our own life with our own thinking and come to Christ and let His life live through and in you. Receive all that Jesus did for us in His finished work.
We should be repenting ( changing how we think towards something ) constantly as we see the Lord's true nature, love and grace revealed to and in us.
And yes - this applies to all forms of sinning from unbelief in Christ's work to the slandering of others in the body of Christ
There will always be "fruits" of having a changed mind ( having already repented ) to God but the "fruit" is not the repentance within itself.
True repentance is the "root" before the "fruit" comes.
The fruit will manifest itself in the form of having an exchanged heart because we are a new creation in Christ.
This will also show in behavior as the life of Christ transforms our outward life to reflect what has already happened in our inner man - that new creation in Christ.
Sometimes our religious traditions can "hi-jack" the meanings of words and can present false assumptions.
Here is a video for those that like to watch them that talks about how the English word "repent" got hi-jacked by religion.
[video=vimeo;112172173]https://vimeo.com/112172173[/video]
To us it means to change our mind to stop relying on ourselves and our thinking and turn to God. Stop living our own life with our own thinking and come to Christ and let His life live through and in you. Receive all that Jesus did for us in His finished work.
We should be repenting ( changing how we think towards something ) constantly as we see the Lord's true nature, love and grace revealed to and in us.
And yes - this applies to all forms of sinning from unbelief in Christ's work to the slandering of others in the body of Christ
There will always be "fruits" of having a changed mind ( having already repented ) to God but the "fruit" is not the repentance within itself.
True repentance is the "root" before the "fruit" comes.
The fruit will manifest itself in the form of having an exchanged heart because we are a new creation in Christ.
This will also show in behavior as the life of Christ transforms our outward life to reflect what has already happened in our inner man - that new creation in Christ.
Sometimes our religious traditions can "hi-jack" the meanings of words and can present false assumptions.
Here is a video for those that like to watch them that talks about how the English word "repent" got hi-jacked by religion.
[video=vimeo;112172173]https://vimeo.com/112172173[/video]