What is repentance?
Repentance is the translation of the Greek word "metanoia". The literal meaning of "metanoia" is "a change of mind". "Meta" means, "change". "Noia" means "mind". So, therefore, "meta-noia" means a "change of mind". Before learning about metanoia, I am sure that you are already familiar with a Greek word with the prefix "meta". That word is "metamorphosis". "Meta" means "change", and "morphosis" means "form or structure". This word metamorphosis is used to describe the change a caterpillar goes through to become a beautiful butterfly. I am sure that you have studied about this change of form. Repentance, therefore, (metanoia) is a change of mind.
Repentance, as it relates to Christ, means to change our minds about Him, who He is and what He's done to provide forgiveness, and deliverance from our sins. When we place faith in Jesus as having taken our place personally on the cross and borne the penalty due our sins, then
we're automatically repenting, because we couldn't accept Him in this way without having had to change our minds in some way concerning Him.
Can a born again believer sin?
Well duh, when we hear and believe the gospel, it’s our spirit that’s redeemed, not this flesh. Paul himself wrote about struggling with sin, was he not saved? Obviously not.
Romans 7:19
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Then why does the Bible say that he who is born of God cannot sin?
1st John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Because the seed of God, the holy spirit within the born again believer, literally cannot sin, not even a single time. That’s why we go to heaven when we die, because the holy spirit of God is attached to our souls when we believe the gospel, and it literally cannot go to hell.
1st John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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