What if repentance is not about feeling guilty, regretful or ashamed? How do you define repentance?
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I don't know how old you are, but you remind me of Chubby Checker, you do the twist. I didn't try to abuse 1 Tim 1:9-10, I just posted who it says the law is for, so you must be accusing Paul, who spent 3 yrs. getting revelation from Jesus in Arabia, of abusing scripture. As I asked before, show me ONE scripture, in the New Covenant, that a Christian should follow the Mosaic Law, I gave you scripture that says we shouldn't. Much of your posts are convoluted.
I will continue to walk on the light/God.
Law keeping is for OT Jews.
I am a Gentile and in a better covenant with God.
The way to do that is not by refusing to walk in God's way.
Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example and being a followers of Christ is not just for Jews.
In Deuteronomy 30, it forms the bias for the New Covenant by prophesying about a time when the Israelites would return from exile, God would circumcise their hearts, and they would return to obedience to the Torah, which is what Jeremiah 31:33 and Ezekiel 36:26-27), so returning to obedience to the Torah is the whole point of the New Covenant.
In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without departing from it, which is why the Law of Moses is called the Law of the Lord in verses like Nehemiah 8:1-8, Ezra 7:6-12, and Luke 2:22-23.
Right! The Law of Moses.
What about Proverbs? ..... About Psalms?
What about the prophets?
They are not the Law of Moses.
There is a differentiation to be made.
All were ultimately from God.
But only certain aspects were specifically given to Moses.
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God's way is the way to know Him and Jesus by embodying His character traits, which is the narrow way to eternal life (John 17:3). For example, in Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teach his children and those of His household to walk in His way by being doers of righteousness and justice that the Lord might bring to him all that He has promised. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be graciously to him by teaching him how to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and there are many verses that show that God taught how to walk in His way through the Torah, such as with Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Isaiah 2:2-3, 1 Kings 2:1-3, Joshua 22:5, Psalm 103:7, Psalm 119:1-3, and many others.
Integtity:
I don't believe we humans live in a "beast system." Our human systems of government is based on power. The question is the source of their power. Dictators have one kind of power stolen from the people. Most are democracies of one sort or another and operate about as ethically and morally as the people demand they do.Pew Research reports that as of 2019 57% of countries with over 5000,000 residents were some kind of democracy. We live in political systems that do not exemplify or demonstrate Christian Values. If by rule by voters results in your definition of a "beast system," then we have only ourselves to blame. IMHO the problem is that for the vast majority of Christians Christianity is all about what you believe to be true theologically but requires no living inconveniences. If you believe "right" then you are free to live your best life that is indistinguishable from your definition of the "beast system."
When you look at a person’s “repentance” you should be able to “see”. Their change of direction, so this definition does fit the act of repenting. However, The Holy Spirit definds repentance for us in the scriptures as including “godly sorrow”. 2 Cor. 7:9-10. “…your SORROW led to repentance….For GODLY SORROW produces repentance leading to salvation.” Sorrow plays a vital part in our repentance according to the Holy Spirit.
Beckworth:
Let me see if I understand your point. If we "feel seriously bad about our sin" then God forgives us. What about all the scriptures that tell us to go and make things right were we have sinned against others? A man can feel "Godly Sorrow" for getting caught cheating on his wife but if he really feels bad about it, his adultery is immediately forgiven? If he fathers children out of wedlock and feels really bad about it, he is forgiven even though he abandons his children? Your perspective is that OOPS Sorry!" makes everything alright. Are you sure you want to stay with that definition of "repentance?"
Perhaps some examples of repentance might be illuminating. Let's start with the story of Zacchaeus. Upon encountering Jesus, his change of heart produced immediate restitution. He declared he would give half of his possessions to the poor and pay back anyone he cheated fourfold. Jesus confirmed his salvation because his repentance bore visible fruit. Then the is Jonah and the city of Nineveh. After Jonah preached a warning of destruction, the entire city—from the king to the common people—humbled themselves, put on sackcloth, fasted, and turned from their evil ways. Seeing their changed behavior, God relented from destroying them.
In Jesus parable of the Prodigal Son, repentance was the turning point came when he "came to his senses," recognized his spiritual bankruptcy, abandoned his pride, and made the physical and emotional U-turn back to his father with a humble confession: "I have sinned against heaven and against you." Repentance only after the prodigal son totally quit his evil ways.
The Apostle Paul started life as a Pharisaic Jew who helped in the murder of Steven and persecuted Christians. His repentance was followed by a complete change of life and eventual martyr.
Perhaps true repentance always produces a "U-turn" in behavior, and—when applicable—making things right or paying restitution (Luke 3:8, Acts 26:20).
"based on power"... People shoot TOXINs into their face and mutilate their temples just to “FIT IN”.
LIKE IT OR NOT WE ARE ENSLAVED and tell our CHILDREN to be as well by those who perverted society to the point that people cannot seem to grasp TRUTH if it hits them straight in the face. Thugs and whores in the music industry are promoted and those who do the promoting are clearly in charge. Everything we see and hear does matter. It shapes our society and it’s not hard to see if you are capable. They have published studies about what they have done to us yet most chose to stay blind and “PRIDFUL” than have the eyes to see how incredibly gullible humanity is. All of us. The system that everyone slaves for creates the chaos that it then deals the so-called “Justice” ($$$$)… They radicalize then use the radicals against us every time. We all die in sin and the devil wins every time. SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND yet look at how many turn away from it because their minds cannot handle the Truth. Matthew 6:26-34 I pray for the blind, for I was once too.
Remember the story about the vineyard? These parasites only want war, and they always get it. I am not speaking about Muslims. I am talking about those whose book tells them to do these things to us. Those who create and promote degeneracy throughout time, yet we are not allowed to speak about it. Our whole system is entrapment/enslavement. Those who funded and pushed for the flooding of our once peaceful countries around the world, yet somehow no one knows, or questions it. The busses in NY that paid them and shipped them out, so it did not look biblical where the same book club.
Look up the doctor who performed the first sex change, and you will see that they also started a sex-school to molest children under the pretense of “Science” all in the same place, the (Weimar Republic) Magnus Hirschfeld and Helmut Kentler. SAME BOOK CLUB.
Wanna talk about “drug epidemic”? No one even has the slightest clue The Sassoon Family done to China in the 19th century, before the same book club brought the Opium Trade to America by The Sackler family!!!! Both families are, yes. It all comes down to one book and when you compare contrast it is of the devil. Matthew 8:12 Jewish entrepreneurs and laborers historically shaped the commercial alcohol industry across Eastern Europe and the United States.
Who or what Group controls Porn, Hollywood, Media, Hip-Hop, The Left and the Right governments, Tech, Pharma, Federal Reserve and everything that has caused our collapse? Imagine what PORN has done to our society alone. Solomon Friedman is a (rabbi) who owns Pornhub and his passion is making pornography ethical!!! They control everything, even what is taught to our children through Lobbying. Who writes these degenerate books for children? LOOK it UP!!! The first school in America to have a trans bathroom? Entrapment means when the government or police trick a person into breaking a law they would not normally break. What is it called when they take over people’s minds, blinds them from truth and stills as many souls as it can?
The food industry, Medical, everything we do, we are lead everyday without realizing it, forgive us Jesus. every site you go to all controlled by the same group yet most are still so blind and full of pride they refuse to see. Everyone wants to go pointing fingers at each other instead of reading the word. Vengeance has never been ours to take. When Jesus came he told the Jews they were viewing things wrong and taught them NEW. LOVE your father in heaven most important over all, and each other secondly.
He never said fight the governing powers that be, John 19:11, stating, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above". John 10:30-38 – “I and the Father are one.” And they picked up rocks to stone him. All he was about is LOVE. A love so much greater than anything has to offer upon this earth. We are so ugly on the inside but most refuse to look. You have to carve out the bad to get full of the good.
Follow the money and you can see they want their own land while having us fight and die for it while they do nothing but progress in this world. You should start to see now. Be in this world but not of it.
We live in a place where they convinced people that to stay safe, we must shut down the world. Think about the dancing doctors and nurses did on television (Tell A Vision). Think about all the crap we have seen over the years and how much comes true. Wipe your hands, brush your teeth, clear your clothes, spray air freshener all with cancer causing ingredients. Wanna talk about the foods they feed us? Tampons with lead, arsenic, cadmium, and more. Sending your children off to be brainwashed by these elites. I am not even talking about the fact that people refuse to see the controlled opposition.
but releasing those Epstein files would be too dangerous for us? Everyday Misinformation, manipulation, and bias is all we are programed for. People are influenced every day without even realizing it. Coercive persuasion and a systematic process aimed at altering an individual's beliefs, attitudes and behaviors is BRAINWASH!!! People shoot TOXINs into their face and mutilate their temples just to “FIT IN” right? Have we not been deceived? The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Project MKUltra, Operation Sea-Spray, Operation Big Buzz, Plutonium Injections, The Fernald School Study, Hepatitis and Malaria Studies, War-era biological tests, and the list goes on..... There is a pill for everything, every behavior is justified and most of them pills lead to more server things. No one ever questions nor gets to know their doctors. What if your doctor is the devil feeding you poison? No one ever questions it, nor do they even investigate the studies done on the drugs/shots they reserve. Look into what our own government has done to “WE THE PEOPLE” time and time again.
Look at Ted Kaczynski, he was picked to participate in a Mind-Control experiment when he was at Harvard University that involved psychological torment and humiliation. followed was 18 years of Ted Kaczynski terrorizing those he saw as agents of antihuman technology before his 1996 arrest.
MK-Ultra is another CIA mind-controlling experiment started in the 50s. Controlling human behavior by remote radio transmission isn’t something new. Just read the beginning of that manifesto because you will know he was right on but did not know what to do with what he knew.
Look at the history of biological and chemical weapons being use by government on their own people. Who says that is not what is happening with these “Chemical spills”?
The term “Planned Obsolescence” refers to the practice of intentionally designing goods to fail and break after a set time period of “acceptable life” once purchased.
If we want to evolve, we must get beyond the monetary system. It has taken over absolutely everything. From our own people, and all forms of government to the clothes we wear, cars we drive, tires we use, roads we're on.... etc... etc... etc. Every single decision that matters is controlled by money.
These are facts yet everyone wants to stay blind and just live some sort of life that they want. Society has taught us how to become selfish, greedy, insecure, all the things that Jesus taught and teaches us even now, how NOT TO BE.
1 John 2:15
Integrity:
Your list of human failure is vastly incomplete. Fairly accurate historical records indicate that Christian on Christian War deaths reached in the 10's of millions. Christian caused deaths on non-Christians are much lower, perhaps only a few million. You seem to have a pretty good antenna for some of the categories of this age, but I am not sure it was ever any different for Christians of all ages and Christianity is still here.
You seem to blame "society" for the corruption you site, however Christians have full protection from these toxic influences by what they watch on TV or allow their children to see via the internet, by how much alcohol they drink or drugs they take. Children see their parents addictions. 40 million adults visit porn websites. That is 1 of every 3 Americans who chose to do this - society does not force it on them. 48.7 million Americans aged 12 or older had a substance use disorder. Their choice but often seen in families. Alcohol Use Disorder: Approximately 29.5 million people aged 12 or older met the criteria for an alcohol use disorder. Individual choice again. 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys in the U.S. are estimated to experience child sexual abuse. This is not a "society disorder" it is individual disorders. For many categories these are enabled by parents and family members.
Leveraging Matthew 25:
Christian Church supported charity - include 5,500 hospitals with 3,500 in poor nations. 1,800 clinics. Education for 92,000 primary school children and 43,000 secondary schools. Over 10,000 orphanages. $100's of millions in charitable giving. 4,100 charitable projects worldwide serving some portion of the estimated 150 million widows. In America Christian churches and individual Christians are helping the 18.3 million with food insecurity and the 7.2 million with very low food insecurity.
Did you actually read 2 Cor. 7:9-10? Because your response does not sound like you did. Let’s read it gain.
“…your Sorrow LED TO repentance.” Verse 9
“For godly sorrow PRODUCES repentance…”
My comment was not about how to be forgiven of sins”, nor was it about all of the different sins we commit . I simply addressed the subject of “repentance” as explained by 2 Cor. 7:9-10. If you have a problem with that scripture, you will have to take it up with the Holy Spirit. HE wrote it—not me.
I am not blaming society but I am saying we are LOST, everyone is blind if they cannot see we have been mislead throughout all generations. Schools are indoctrination and the things you have learned are bias. "HUMAN FAILURE"? Saying that one can and will still go to heaven if they do not turn from these sins ( all you must do is believe) is not of my Fathers teachings. One must and will change if they truly wish to know Christ. I think we can all agree upon that. You got to take the bad out of yourself, surrender, or however you wish to put it and purify your soul... None are Good besides the Father but that does not mean we can do what we want and keep getting away with it. THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. The non-fruit will be cast out, so I believe in order to change the least we can do is change ourselves from within. know I am speaking as a sinner. I WAS A DOPE HEAD, PROSTITUTE, AND EVERYTHING BAD YOU CAN THINK THAT COMES FROM THAT, AND I DO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MY ROLE but you must see that children are being guided into this life of sin...
They are showing us what they want us to do or be. If you look into shows that were displayed for the public to watch around the late 50s throughout the 60s such as “Leave It to Beaver, or my favorite Andy Griffith. These shows set aside at least 30minutes at the end to display a moral lesson learned. The Majority of American families stayed intact. Then in the ’70s shows started displaying single-family sitcoms like Maude, Mary Tyler Moore, and One Day at a Time. Divorce Rates in America also skyrocketed throughout the ’70s. Then cable television started in the ’80s. New sitcoms like The Cosby Show and Family Ties both featured a new take on modern family life, with the mothers working outside of the home. These things have been studied LONG AGO and there is a direct correlation when it comes to things we see, hear, and are subject to heavily influence our society. What government has paid American influencers to promote their content and bias-fear on social media. Google, TikTok, VPN, Facebook, BlackRock, The Banking world and all the wars that have come…. Once you start noticing, you cannot stop. Rap music back in the day was designed to influence so many youths for a reason.
That shut down was a test. Imagine a world where A.I. can take any image of you and edit it as proof of a crime. Think for a moment on this, We already live in a world that is so saturated that people sound like bots. Everything they see they pretend to be and everything they hear they memorize to create a reality. No one knows what is or what is not anymore already. People have a shared linguistic ecosystem now. Anyone that does not agree with any agendas being pushed or speaks against the establishment is subject to persecution. The blind think they see.
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the (WHAT?) leaders.”
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16
It is, as if, everyone is under a spell, including myself at times. Why is it that people do not think anymore? “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”, why do we not question the history we have been taught since we keep REPEATING IT!!!?
37 assassinations in Mexico before one president won in a (90% Catholic nation) and no one questions it. who or what group eliminating all rivals?
Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine.
Laurentino Cortizo, President of Panama
Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Russia
Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister of France
Javier Gerardo Milei President of Argentina.
Do you still not see? It is our fault that we are still allowing this fire to spread, we did not start the fire but the least we can do is connect some dots. None of these people are Christian btw. For how can one be Christian if they do not believe Jesus was the son? Something is blinding, and I believe it is sin. Many are too pridful to admit all of humanity is retarded and we have been easily lead and lied to our whole lives. They just cannot fathom it and I do not know why.
all are part of the same book club that truly contridics Christ, and I am not speaking about the muslims. So why for the life of me people can be so mad at those who have been paid to come here without batting an eye at those who FUNDED the invations, its beyond me.... They get to have their own land but make Chritians fight for it while they flood our own lands??? WHAT ARE PEOPLE NOT SEEING? ALL THE ISIMS look back you will see they are surrounded by these puppet masters. They created all the divistion and terroisim. KING DAVID HOSTEL!!!
I appreciate your testimony.
If God brought you out of addiction, immorality, and destruction, that is a powerful display of grace.
But notice what your testimony actually proves: the answer was not primarily discovering hidden plots.
The answer was Christ changing you.
Yes, media influences people.
Yes, governments lie.
Yes, societies drift from God.
But Scripture never presents those things as the root problem.
The root problem is sin in the human heart.
Pharaoh had no television.
Cain had no social media.
Judas had no internet.
Yet all sinned.
So while I agree that Christians should think critically and test what they are told, I would caution against becoming so focused on identifying the darkness that every discussion becomes about hidden powers, secret influences, or global manipulation.
Forgive me Jesus, a sinner. I struggle with it because I feel like I want to save some other little child from the evils (traps) I fell into that spread and I am slow so I had to learn the devils traps in order to ovoid them so I just feel like I need to tell others everything out of this mess I have found. I know it is the devil and in the end we cannot do anything about it but I feel I must warn others, even though most still refuse to look. Tell me, what is that? The trance everyone is in, you see it, I know you do. I was so lost man, and I see why, I see everything now. not everything but all the reason I went through hell... I feel like I need to show the world the path to light but I went through hell in order to get there and now I know why. Man I could show and tell thing that no one ever talks about nor thinks about because everyone feels like the system we are in, the times we are in and what we are heading for makes me want to say everything.
I wish I had someone like you in my life growing up. to set me down and explain things to me throughout but lets be honest most kids do not stand a chance why? Because we live in a system that take it all, chews it up and spits it out at us. I try so hard to be normal but I am not. It breaks me everyday. thinking about it all. I hope you and everyone understands I am not trying to preach hate because in the end I hate the sins but I see where these things (MUCH of IT) comes from. I guess some don't need shaken. I apologize and thank you.
Thank you. I do see you and you see me too, THANK YOU
