Your kind of repentance is legalism because it leaves off the goodness of God and puts the emphasis on man turning himself. God wants to turn the sinner and wants the glory for doing it, but you want to repent and get the credit, that is legalism and it is all in the flesh and does not glorify God and I do not care how many verses of scriptures you post to justify your position.
Please be serious. Your denial of the truth is forcing you to say the most foolish things.
A child molester who forsakes his sin and casts himself at the mercy of God is not going to be trying to earn credit or glorying in himself by doing so.
Your position is foolishness.
I suppose Nineveh were taking the glory away from God and trying to earn credit by forsaking their sin right?
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, I suppose the Prodigal Son was taking the glory away from his father and crediting himself for his efforts. Is that right?
Luk 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Luk 15:19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Luk 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luk 15:21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight,
and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luk 15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Luk 15:23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
Luk 15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
An adulterous husband who forsakes his adultery and pleads with his wife for mercy is not basting in his self glory or trying to earn credit. To allude to such logic clearly demonstrates the fallacies of your thinking.
The repentance I speak of is right from the Bible. I use specific examples and word definitions all in full context.
All you use is rhetoric and foolish logic.