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Webster's defines "penance" as an act of self-abasement, mortification, or
devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin.
Extreme forms of penance include things like donning sackcloth and ashes,
malnutrition, hermitage, celibacy, walking around with a pebble in one's
shoe, privation, self flagellation, the wearing of garter belts studded with
metal spikes, and ascending flights of stairs on one's knees, et al.
Those types of calculated pain and/or suffering are usually meant to
convince God of one's sincerity.
Spikes and stones and whatnot may seem logical to a humanistic sense of
piety; but actually Christ's believing followers can get by just fine without all
that because his crucifixion did for them what no amount of their own
personal suffering will ever in a million years accomplish.
● 1John 2:2 . . And he himself is the propitiation for our sins
Webster's defines propitiation as: pacify, appease, assuage, conciliate,
mollify, placate, and/or sweeten.
● Isa 53:5 . . He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our
iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him.
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Webster's defines "penance" as an act of self-abasement, mortification, or
devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin.
Extreme forms of penance include things like donning sackcloth and ashes,
malnutrition, hermitage, celibacy, walking around with a pebble in one's
shoe, privation, self flagellation, the wearing of garter belts studded with
metal spikes, and ascending flights of stairs on one's knees, et al.
Those types of calculated pain and/or suffering are usually meant to
convince God of one's sincerity.
Spikes and stones and whatnot may seem logical to a humanistic sense of
piety; but actually Christ's believing followers can get by just fine without all
that because his crucifixion did for them what no amount of their own
personal suffering will ever in a million years accomplish.
● 1John 2:2 . . And he himself is the propitiation for our sins
Webster's defines propitiation as: pacify, appease, assuage, conciliate,
mollify, placate, and/or sweeten.
● Isa 53:5 . . He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our
iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him.
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