Loco,
I think we should all be joyous whenever a sinner repents.
We should be nothing but happy.
We should be happy, and joyous, and ready to welcome the person with open arms.... regardless of their past.
We should pray for this repentance in others, and hope for it, and long for it.
We should desire, not the destruction of the lost or the wicked, but their conversion.
We should desire this with all our hearts.
And we should be fully joyous when repentance occurs.
However, I just cannot see that this is the scenario we're dealing with here.
The scenario in front of us seems to be the exact opposite of repentance.
There are many things he said in this video, many little things I haven't pointed out yet or addressed, that would all seem to clearly indicate the very opposite of repentance.
There is a lot of subtlety, and a lot of oddness, in all of the particular things he said.
It's all extremely odd.
If I went through the video sentence by sentence, and pointed out all of the discrepancies, and holes, and bizarre psychology, and extreme subtlety of language, and even the subtle shiftings of culpability from himself onto others... I'm afraid it would leave little doubt.
This wasn't a confession of genuine repentance.
This was a very careful, very contrived, and very skillful message, by a master orator, who has been deceiving the flock for a very long time.
Whenever there is real repentance, we should be joyful, and welcome the person with open arms.
We should let go of their past, just as Christ has.
But I am, unfortunately, fully convinced this is not the particular case before us.
God Bless
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