Title: Rethinking Repentance (2 of 9)
Series: Correcting Misconceptions of The Unpardonable Sin
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: Romans 1:28, Hebrews 10:26-27
The word repent is translated from the Greek word, Metanoeo, which means to change the mind. It means to take our mind out of human thinking, and rest our minds in faith. Our minds need repentance, or a change of thinking, whether we are in temptation to sin, or the temptation of religion by human effort.
The majority of the scriptures that are used to condemn believers comes out of the Old Covenant of the Law. According to the scriptures, the law was designed to reveal the guilt of the entire world to show mankind we can never become righteous. Then through that condemnation, the law becomes our tutor, that leads us to Christ where all sin, condemnation, and guilt have been taken out of the way.
This study will not be focusing on these passages, but on the misunderstood scriptures of the New Covenant. Let's first look at the often misused passage of Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Some translations use 'reprobate' instead of 'debased'. After going down the lists of sins that mankind is caught up in, this passage is given to explain that God will indeed turn man over to the sins he is pursuing.
The problem comes when people use this as a prooftext that God writes people off forever. This passage is not saying that God gives up on man and turns him over to sin forever.
Because people are distracted by sin and its empty promises, sometimes people have to come to the end of themselves before they realize that there is no fulfillment in sin. The quickest way to discover that sin is a lie and cannot fulfill us or produce good is to allow it to fully run its course.
How many men have loved money and ma ...
Series: Correcting Misconceptions of The Unpardonable Sin
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: Romans 1:28, Hebrews 10:26-27
The word repent is translated from the Greek word, Metanoeo, which means to change the mind. It means to take our mind out of human thinking, and rest our minds in faith. Our minds need repentance, or a change of thinking, whether we are in temptation to sin, or the temptation of religion by human effort.
The majority of the scriptures that are used to condemn believers comes out of the Old Covenant of the Law. According to the scriptures, the law was designed to reveal the guilt of the entire world to show mankind we can never become righteous. Then through that condemnation, the law becomes our tutor, that leads us to Christ where all sin, condemnation, and guilt have been taken out of the way.
This study will not be focusing on these passages, but on the misunderstood scriptures of the New Covenant. Let's first look at the often misused passage of Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Some translations use 'reprobate' instead of 'debased'. After going down the lists of sins that mankind is caught up in, this passage is given to explain that God will indeed turn man over to the sins he is pursuing.
The problem comes when people use this as a prooftext that God writes people off forever. This passage is not saying that God gives up on man and turns him over to sin forever.
Because people are distracted by sin and its empty promises, sometimes people have to come to the end of themselves before they realize that there is no fulfillment in sin. The quickest way to discover that sin is a lie and cannot fulfill us or produce good is to allow it to fully run its course.
How many men have loved money and ma ...
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