Is repentance necessary for forgiveness?

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yes its a requirement .. one is required to walk in good works after confessing christ Jesus as savior. else you can be christian( being christlike). its that simple.
 
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Baptismal regeneration...nope. not necessary for salvation. saying that it is, is saying that the blood of Christ is not sufficient

Should a believer be baptized? Scripture indicates that we should, but nowhere does it state your salvation is not complete unless you are immersed in water. Requiring anything besides faith in Christ and HIS salvation, creates a 'works' based salvation and scripture strongly refutes this system and error in understanding both salvation and baptism in water.

21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

Peter clearly taught that water baptism is a pledge of a good conscience towards God and not necessary for salvation.

Scripture teaches adamantly that salvation is by faith in Christ alone. John 3:16, Ephesians 2: 8-9, Titus 3:5 and many other verses. Baptism is a public confession of faith in Christ and symbolic of our identification with Him.
 
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We know that God told us to repent, but did God tell us that if we don’t repent, we will not be forgiven?

Psalms 51: 17 The sacrifices of god are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

God hears our repentance, but is it a requirement?
If you are interested in freedom from sin and how do we receive the Holy Spirit? read below.
After God gave me the Holy Spirit, I found proof that TV, movies, novels, music, video games and computer games are all sins, except Christian stuff that don’t have sins like sermons and Christian music words that gives messages. I found out that in them there is lying, stealing, adultery (Matthew 5:28 looking at someone with lust is adultery), fornication which is sex before marriage, revenge, murder, jealousy, pride=self-pity, hypocrisy, using God’s name in vain as a curse word, they are all idols (breaks 2nd Commandment) because most people can’t live without them and they love them more than God and more. Just read the 10 commandments for a list.


1 John 2:15 King James Version (KJV)


15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 New King James Version

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.


Now I will be preaching about how to receive the Holy Spirit and be 100% going to Heaven.

First, it’s only by the grace of God that he gives you faith in Jesus Christ in order to give up your sins. It’s only by the grace of God that he leads you to pray to him to destroy all your evil desires of watching TV or any sinful desires. When you pray to God to destroy all your evil desires of watching TV or sinful desires (Romans 6:6-7 and Galatians 5:24), Satan will intervene and extremely tempt you in watching the TV. But if it’s God’s will and if you are one of God’s elects, you will overcome it and God will destroy all your evil desires of watching TV. After God has destroyed all your evil desires of watching TV and if you are one of God’s elects, you receive the joy of the Holy Spirit for about 40 minutes. After the joy wears off, all existence of boredom no longer exists and you no longer burn out (psychology) anymore. That is when you have received the Holy Spirit.

Then it’s by the grace of God that he forgives you of your sins, as you confess and repent of your sins throughout your life which is called sanctification. But you can watch Christian stuff that don’t have sins (Like sermons) because that helps you grow more mature as a Christian spiritually and for more information about this sermon, go to spreadthegospel59.wordpress.com then go to
The short version of “To be free from sin (sin deceives and hurts everyone) and how do we receive the Holy Spirit?”

Why does God hate sin? | GotQuestions.org
What does it mean that “you were bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20; 7:23)? | GotQuestions.org
Sin Will Never Make You Happy
(What does the Bible say about hypocrisy? | GotQuestions.org)
Gives thanks to God, that you are free from sin (sin deceives=never satisfied no matter how many times you do it,
gives pain, makes you guilty, go from bad to worse)
if you are one of God’s elect, to fight off self-pity is to give thanks to God for everything. What does the Bible say about self-pity? | GotQuestions.org
Is eternal security a “license” to sin? | GotQuestions.org

The reason why am hated for no reason since I were physically born and never fit in is because am one of God’s elects. (John 15:18-19)


Just so you know Jesus had to carry all of God’s elects sins and endure the punishment for God’s elects sins which is Hellfire spiritually, which is extreme love and mercy.
Go to the bottom website, for better explanation.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/jesus-eternal-punishment-hours/
 
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The idea that we must confess verbally is a new idea to me, I question that requirement. If God required it of all people, then all people would have that opportunity to verbally confess to other Christians, and there are humans that live in places that it is not possible. I am one. I live in a facility with no Christians around me, I'm wheelchair bound. I have outlived my friends.

The new testament does not list all sins Christ forgives us for, but the old testament lists every sin as Christ fulfilled the forgiveness offered. One group of sins are the sins we are not aware of. Christians cover these sins when they confess repentance of all sin, stating they turn from all sin and want to be sin free. You could not confess a sin you are not aware of.

God wants us to be public in our commitment....every person He called to follow Him and serve Him was called publicly. Further,
Christ said..." if you will not acknowledge My Father before mankind I will not acknowledge you before my Father. No one comes to the Father but by Me (Christ).

The intent here is very clear. We must confess and acknowledge our Father as our Creator and ask Him for forgiveness of our sins...in Jesus's name...Amen.
 
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2 Timothy 2:15

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
That refers to dividing the Bible meaning from the wrong. Such as the Bible denouncing homosexuality but the new age religion types attempt justification of such practice by false interpretation, et al.
 
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Baptismal regeneration...nope. not necessary for salvation. saying that it is, is saying that the blood of Christ is not sufficient

Should a believer be baptized? Scripture indicates that we should, but nowhere does it state your salvation is not complete unless you are immersed in water. Requiring anything besides faith in Christ and HIS salvation, creates a 'works' based salvation and scripture strongly refutes this system and error in understanding both salvation and baptism in water.

21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you alsonot the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

Peter clearly taught that water baptism is a pledge of a good conscience towards God and not necessary for salvation.

Scripture teaches adamantly that salvation is by faith in Christ alone. John 3:16, Ephesians 2: 8-9, Titus 3:5 and many other verses. Baptism is a public confession of faith in Christ and symbolic of our identification with Him.
Wrong...the Bible requires baptism. Study..if you need reference I will gladly post it. Start with Acts 2; 38...there are many more.
 

Autumn

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God wants us to be public in our commitment....every person He called to follow Him and serve Him was called publicly. Further,
Christ said..." if you will not acknowledge My Father before mankind I will not acknowledge you before my Father. No one comes to the Father but by Me (Christ).

The intent here is very clear. We must confess and acknowledge our Father as our Creator and ask Him for forgiveness of our sins...in Jesus's name...Amen.
Our sins are already forgiven, forgiveness is a gift and it is free like salvation. God does not require us to do anything to receive his forgiveness. Repentance sets us free from sin.
2 Samuel 12:13
 

throughfaith

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Wrong...the Bible requires baptism. Study..if you need reference I will gladly post it. Start with Acts 2; 38...there are many more.
Acts 2.38 is not a prescription for all time . Its what they had to do . Israel.
 

throughfaith

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As I predicted. Acts 2.38 has some, very confused.
 

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The idea that we must confess verbally is a new idea to me, I question that requirement. If God required it of all people, then all people would have that opportunity to verbally confess to other Christians, and there are humans that live in places that it is not possible. I am one. I live in a facility with no Christians around me, I'm wheelchair bound. I have outlived my friends.

The new testament does not list all sins Christ forgives us for, but the old testament lists every sin as Christ fulfilled the forgiveness offered. One group of sins are the sins we are not aware of. Christians cover these sins when they confess repentance of all sin, stating they turn from all sin and want to be sin free. You could not confess a sin you are not aware of.
Right there. I believe that some things are sin but God does not put his finger on them because it is not the right time. When it is he will let us know and be very clear about it.
 

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We know that God told us to repent, but did God tell us that if we don’t repent, we will not be forgiven?

Psalms 51: 17 The sacrifices of god are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

God hears our repentance, but is it a requirement?
yes.
 
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SophieT

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Wrong...the Bible requires baptism. Study..if you need reference I will gladly post it. Start with Acts 2; 38...there are many more.
oh you go right ahead

just make yourself more wrong than you already are ;) :LOL:
 

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We know that God told us to repent, but did God tell us that if we don’t repent, we will not be forgiven?

Psalms 51: 17 The sacrifices of god are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

God hears our repentance, but is it a requirement?
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:

but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:13‬ ‭KJV‬‬

these are what the works of the flesh are like and thier consequence

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:

of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:19-21‬ ‭

if we keep serving sin and expect salvation we’re being Decoeved by men and thier doctrine

“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5:5-7‬ ‭KJV‬‬

we’ve been warned from the beginning of time about sin , it hasn’t changed now we can repent and live before onceyou sinned you were a dead man walking

now even though we all have sinned we have grave and forebewrance so we don’t die while we repent and escape the devils snare we’ve been caught in

repentance is what God is waiting for from all of us

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”
‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭3:9-14‬ ‭KJV‬‬

our belief needs to be against sin completely like we’re taught , then when we stumble and fall into a sinful thing our belief isn’t going to low
And embrace it as acceptable . If we have the belief “ sin doesn’t matter I’m saved anyways “ we’re never going to come to repentance which is salvation

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭5:32‬ ‭KJV‬‬


That’s the call brother That leads here

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:28-30‬ ‭

and then there are those who won’t repent even faced with the true gospel and calling of Jesus out of the world into the kingdom where righteousness reigns

it’s really important that we come first to the understanding that sin is poison to our living soul , that sin isn’t for us , it isnt our master we need to turn against sin inwardly in our understanding before we’re going to find repentance often we enjoy the pleasures of the flesh and are internally simply refusing to let repentance in









look at those who don’t repent