Featured Biblical Repentance and the gospel of John

your "gospel" is what Paul calls in Galatians, "a different gospel, which is not another"! Based on ONE Book of the 66 Books of the Holy Bible!

 

WHY only the Gospel of John? What about the entire Bible? I have shown from Jesus in Luke's Gospel, and Peter in Acts, which is very clear that "repentance" leads to forgiveness of sins, and salvation! But you will keep on ignoring this!

 

Before a person can or even will repent, that person must be made spiritually alive with Christ.
Until a person is made alive they may have remorse for their behavior, but they will not repent. In their dead state, they will consider themselves to be ruler and controller of their life. To whom would they repent?

Only when they recognize Jesus is King and rules over them will they even think of repenting.

Ephesians 2:1-22
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

The believer repents. The unbeliever rebels.

 

this is nothing more than "Reformed theology", and NOT Bible! Read John 16:1-10 and see that "the world" of sinners is "convicted" by the Holy Spirit, some will reject as in Acts 7:51, while others will accept. Human "will" has not been destroyed completely at the fall, as some would have us believe!

 

now don't be silly! Repentance for forgiveness of sins is what Jesus Christ clearly says in Luke 24:47, will you listen to Him?

 

NOT only believing!

 

your "theology" is as warped as Van's!

 

There is not a SINGLE verse in the entire Bible, that says the Holy Spirit must first "make alive", or "quicken", or "enable" the sinner, in order that they can then "repent! This is Reformed theological rubbish! The passage from Ephesians 2 has been misused to promote this nonsense!

 

So you simply avoid and disregard all the verses that speak of repentance

 

Can you read? Mark 1.15 says first REPENT!