This is a good and easy way to share the Gospel! It’s basically Ray Comfort in your pocket!

👋 To all my brothers and sisters in CHRIST: "Are you ready to Share GOD's glorious Gospel?" ✝️🌍

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If so, then comment with: "Yes, send me LORD!" 🕊️

And this will help you: I just published a website designed to share the Gospel with unbelievers. 👍

I called it "ThisCouldChangeYourLife" and it contains:

➤ The Gospel ✝️ ➤ An explanation why this is important for their Life! 🌿 ➤ Clear evidence for GOD 💯 ➤ Clear evidence for the Bible 📖 ➤ What it means to be a Christian 🕊️ ➤ Where to find good answers ❓❗

Please help out by sharing the link with as many people as possible! 🤝

▶️ Link: https://www.thiscouldchangeyourlife.net ◀️

*Also this is no Advertisement, I'm not earning money with the website, it's all for GOD'S glory! 🌍

"The LORD bless you and be with you in all of your ways. HE will strengthen you with the necessary faith and courage to proclaim HIS Gospel!" In the name of JESUS, Amen. 🙏❤️

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Close, but not quite.

A lot of people have a wrong idea of repentance because it's translated flat out wrong from Greek to English. The word "repentance" comes from the Latin-Vulgate translation, which means to "do penance": voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression for having done wrong. Unfortunately the men who translated this word from the greek, also translated their theology into the word, because that is nowhere near the original meaning in greek. That word is metanoia.

As you can tell from my reddit name, I'm a big fan of metanoia. That's because it's not just a word. Metanoia is a concept that fully embodies a believer's walk with Jesus(from start to finish). To understand this word, you need to see it in two simple parts. Meta: to change or alter. Noia: a person's paradigm or worldview. Metanoia means to change the way in which you view the world. Here is the essential command of Jesus when he says "Repent!": "You once viewed the world that way, but now I'm calling you to view the world another way". And what are we changing our worldview towards? Believing in Him and His Kingdom.

This kind of repentance is essential to salvation.

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Thank you. I've studied this subject quite a bit.

Again, I think that misunderstanding, which you've rightly pointed out, comes from the mistranslation of repentance. An understandable mistake, since the mistranslation of metanoia has crept its way into the Church's psyche from an early age.(Oh that the Church would heed the call of the reformation: "Ad Fontes!") And like you said, the misunderstanding of a word leads people to a misunderstanding of the gospel as a whole.

If we take a look at the thief on the cross, we can see the dual aspect of repentance and belief playing out right before us.

First both thieves reviled Christ:

"Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing." - Matthew 27:44

But then something shifted for one of the thieves. He repented. He changed the way in which he viewed his world(the righteous justice of God brought forth upon sinners) and more importantly the identity of Jesus. This change in worldview naturally leads to a belief in Christ. Repentance and belief are inseparable. Both are necessary for men and women to be saved.

Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”

But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”

And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” - Luke 23:39-43

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It still also means changing your lifestyle away from ungodliness!

This is what Louw Nida says

41.52 μετανοέω; μετάνοια, ας f: to change one’s way of life as the result of a complete change of thought and attitude with regard to sin and righteousness—‘to repent, to change one’s way, repentance.’

μετανοέω: ἐξελθόντες ἐκήρυξαν ἵνα μετανοῶσιν ‘they went out and preached that the people should repent’ Mk 6:12.

μετάνοια: ἀγνοῶν ὅτι τὸ χρηστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς μετάνοιάν σε ἄγει; ‘do you fail to understand that God is kind because he wants to lead you to repent?’ Ro 2:4.

Though in English a focal component of repent is the sorrow or contrition that a person experiences because of sin, the emphasis in μετανοέω and μετάνοια seems to be more specifically the total change, both in thought and behavior, with respect to how one should both think and act. Whether the focus is upon attitude or behavior varies somewhat in different contexts. Compare, for example, Lk 3:8, He 6:1, and Ac 26:20.

Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 509). New York: United Bible Societies.

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Title	This is a good and easy way to share the Gospel! It’s basically Ray Comfort in your pocket!
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Date	November 29, 2020 9:21 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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