Sometimes the meaning of a word like "repentance" gets hi-jacked from our religious teachings and when we hear something different - it upsets us.
People that go to websites that are against a certain ministry or teaching are getting their information from one side which is usually not presenting the truth. The accusation that people that believe in grace ( which some use the term in a derogatory way and call it hyper-grace ) that it is heresy - is simply complete foolishness and it is not based on any semblance of the truth and is an out-right falsehood.
Let's look at it by what the people that believe in the grace of Christ "actually" do say. Here is a post from one of our members outlining what is this "hyper-grace".
In fact, what has been hijacked are the Biblical definitions of repentance, grace, sin, forgiveness, etc.
A new and false gospel is being preached on CC. I had never heard of it before you, Grace777 started extolling it. I even read some links someone posted, and still didn't undertand what it was about. None so blind as those who will not see.
Since I am not a legalist, nor antinomian, I fell hook, line and sinker for this false gospel. I thought it was supporting the doctrine of eternal security, which I am a firm believer in. Since God showed me in my spirit by HIS spirit, and confirmed in the world of God.
In fact, all the posts by grace+ people just confirmed what I thought I knew. But your constant posted links to the "Escape to Reality" website, set alarm bells off. He was pulling things radically out of context. Using only one verse, or part of a verse to support his viewpoints. But I guess the alarm was not sounded loud enough! I kept on thinking we were still debating "law versus grace" preciously because of such posts as the one I have partially quoted above.
So I kept reading all the posts by you, and supporting you. Until one day - ZAP! I finally realized what you were saying! Not what PeterJens or HeRose or P_Rebein were saying! What you were saying! Your words judge you! No anti hypergrace websites for me. My bad! Yesterday was the first day I actually looked a websites that were saying hypergrace is a heresy and Joseph Prince its false prophet.
Now I am trying my best not to be critical or nasty here. And I certainly am not judging the lives of anyone in this forum. (Sometimes I do get strong in the Family Forum, because people are reaping the consequences of their sin and only God can help the messes they are in!)
So the Holy Spirit, particularly through your posts, Grace777 showed me that you were not preaching a Biblical or historical faith. In fact, it was totally "another gospel." I certainly don't say every person who believes in hypergrace is not saved. And I have seen over and over people confessing their sin. I guess that is some kind of hangover of their religious teachings?
BUT - this is a revelation gone mad. It denies the whole purpose of Christ coming. It's evangelists (not just you, Grace777) are actually lying to this forum. For instance, saying that 1 John 1:9 was "only" for Gnostics. When in fact, there was NO Gnosticism when the epistles of 1, 2 & 3 John were written. It didn't come out until the 2nd century. That is history, which again, you are denying.
To say nothing of there being no scripture support, internal or external for this ridiculous view that 1 John 1:9 doesn't really apply to us, when it was written to believers. That we really don't have to confess our sins, because God forgave the on the cross. The entire epistle of John was written to believers. So, it is a patent lie that 1 John 1:9 was written to Gnostics. And it will be reported as a lie, in the future. That alone tells me hypergrace is wrong, when it's evangelists have to literally lie to make the Bible conform with their "religious" beliefs.
No, this is not about "religious traditions" at all. It is about people who deny the reality of the gospel and replace it with another.
My sincerest wish, is that you would please tell me, with regards to repentance, what are you changing your mind from, and to?
So Biblical Christianity - sin and a fallen life -> repentance (God giving me the power to confess my sins and change my life) -> to living life in Christ, a new creature in him. Positionally perfect, but not sinless and still aware of sin, and its consequences.
One more time!
sin (the broad road that leads to destruction ---> repentance (turning from sin - confession of sins) --->
towards God. Serving him the rest of my life!
What is your definition of repentance? What are you changing YOUR from, and to what?