I have never had the need to repent. Often the need to confess. Am I the only one? I don't think so. I am going to go hide, now. John
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You have heard of "original sin?" What about "original salvation." ????? Anyway -- what I mean is that I have never considered myself lost. That does not mean such was the case. I was raised going to church. I grew up in church. My dad was an elder in church. There has never been a time in my thoughtful existence when I did not think God in Christ died for me. I was baptised at age 12, back in '57. But I knew I was going to commit to that ordinance years before. If "repentance" means a change of mind,
jt: Then you are still in your sin because "there is none righteous, no not one" Confessing is pointless unless we are willing to repent which is to let go of it or turn - JD Could it possibly be that you have never really understood "righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come but have inherited a 'form of godliness?" because believing you were never lost is delusion.
Nope.
There is none righteous, no not one -- this has nothing to do with what I said. Repentance, to me, simply means to change my direction. At no time in my life, can I honestly say that I was walking away from the Lord. I was more carnal than spiritual at differeing times -- but I have always been moving towards the Divine.
Deceived? Me? Not one chance in seven hundreds hells. Often wrong? Oh, you betcha.
John
