Repentance = Confess and trust in Jesus.
The only sad deception is you -- twisting and prodding at Lynn's words so as to find a speck of fault in order to blow this speck up into something major so that you can continue your crusade..
The Bible says this about repentance...
2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2Co 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Repentance is a lot more than some nebulous "confession and trusting in Jesus."
In fact Jesus referenced Nineveh when teaching repentance...
Mat_12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because
they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The people of Nineveh forsook their evil ways.
Jon 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jon 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Jon 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jon 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jon 3:10 And
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Likewise the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 forsook his wayward life and sought to return to his father. He was no longer in rebellion, he came clean with his father and humbly sought mercy.
So Wounded will you answer my question? I have endeavoured to answer all yours.
Is there any sin or sins that must be forsaken BEFORE God will grant mercy?
I know it is a troubling question for those who believe they can engage in evil and remain in a forgiven state. This question rips to the root of a lot of this deception.