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New Testament Bible repentance is actually “metanoya” (a changed mind) over DEAD WORKS (Heb 6:1). The New Testament teaches that we are saved by grace not works and we are righteous as God’s gift (Romans 5:17) not by our works.
Repentance from dead works means we accept the full and complete forgiveness for all of our sins by the perfect single sacrifice of Jesus Christ who bore the full condemnation and punishment of our sins on the cross. We take his word that IT IS FINISHED - he has done it all. Repentance from dead works means we have changed our minds and stop our self-efforts to be saved or to be righteous.
What’s Jas?
I see.
Jas is James.
Til I came to this in #12:
"The businessman learns to show concern for the needs of his clients, yet he batters his wife through neglect."
Say What?
So...supposedly...thru this guy's inactions he's describing, that therefore makes him a wife-beater? What?
So by extension is every parent who may have gone thru a week or month of neglecting their kid(s) an abusive kid-beater for whatever time period that neglect occurred?
Really? Why do good communicators...
...communicating in a publication built on...
...Christian communication...
...wind up being so poorly able to demonstrate simple common sense and get their phrasing down pat -- minus twisting like that of the above?
Thanks for the article. It is a keeper.