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"What exactly do I have to repent from to be saved?" Have you heard of SIN? I am really sorry to have to say this, but the fact that you are a 5 point Calvinist, shows that your understanding is colored by this theological system, which has sought to compress the Bible's Teachings, into their...

you are mistaken, we must use our FREE WILL in repenting/believing/accepting, as it we are not robots! I must get to bed, sorry.

Look at Jonah 3:10, where the Lord saw their WORKS, that they TURNED (REPENTED) and Acts 2:37, What must we DO", to which Peter says, REPENT. etc.

Indeed, true repentance from any sinner is only possible after the working and convicting of the Holy Spirit in their heart. No person can produce faith that saves them in and of themselves, the Bible says that faith comes from hearing the Word of God, which the Holy Spirit uses in the hearts of...

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true godly repentance that brings salvation to the sinners soul, is genuine heart-felt sorrow for living a life apart from the Lord, and living to oneself in sin, and acknowledging this separation from the Lord due to this life-style, and seeking forgiveness from the Lord, and accepting what the...

Yes, repentance and faith for the salvation of the sinner, is two sides of the same coin. My OP states that you cannot have the one without the other, as Jesus states in Mark 1:15. There are some who teach that repentance is not a pre-requirement for salvation, but follows it. This I believe to...

My friend, the Holy Bible says it, and we believe it! It is that simple. the Christian Faith is exactly that, FAITH in the Almighty God of the Bible, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Who are coequal, coessential and coeternal. Read the 11th chapter of Hebrews, which is all about FAITH. If you cannot...

you will find that the Bible also says it includes repentance from and the forsaking of sins before salvation. I am bewildered that some suppose this is not the case, and suppose that to repent somehow is a "work" that the sinners does?

The OP is about sinners who are "justified" by God, on the basis of their repentance and faith. Do you agree with this?

I don't deny any of what you say from the Word. However, the passages that you quote are of those who are already "justified" with God, and not used of those who are still sinners. As the OP says, no sinner can be "justified" without their first "repenting and believing". I really do not know...

"Justification by faith ALONE" is nowhere in Scripture, "Justification by faith, is". the former is the language of Martin Luther.

As I have tried to show you numerous times...we don't equate conditions in the Old Testament with New Covenant conditions, elements, and provision. so, has God changed His mind on the requirements that He demanded in the Old Testament, in the New?

my friend, in the first place, "God commands all men everywhere to REPENT" (Acts 17:30). This command is something that ALL must DO. It is not done for them. I do NOT deny that salvation is of the Lord from start to finish. But, that it requires that all sinners must REPENT first and BELIEVE...

what of Jonah 3:7-10, especially verse 10?

"In other words, that person has already been drawn to the Father, has already been redeemed, has already been adopted, and the results are confession that Jesus is Lord." so, all of this happens without the sinner repenting and believing? You simply cannot make light of what Mark writes, as he...

the accepting of the gift, in this case, salvation, is only possible when the sinner repents. I have already addressed this more than once. It is not that I give myself the gift of salvation, but the Lord does so when I "repent and believe" which Jesus taught in Mark 1:15. I don't understand...

you make me laugh! and how do you conclude that I am angry? You refer to Abraham, so does James in his Epistle, where he speaks of "faith without works being dead"

in case you have not fully read the OP, I have not said that God does not have to take the first step in the salvation of the sinner. We are not discussing this here. I have said that repentance and faith, what Jesus Himself taught (Mark 1:15) are equal pre-requirements for any sinner to be...

can you please give me it again?