Repentance

Van Rijn, or mostly known as Rembrandt, is a very well known artist still today who followed a Protestant faith. He used his faith to present the beliefs of Christianity on the ideas of repentance and forgiveness of our sins. In this oil painting, it shows the appearance of the prodigal son, who is shown repenting to his father, who appears in a red cape. The prodigal son is a parable that Jesus used to teach others on the importance of repenting…

God knows that we cannot make it to higher levels of glory without some form of forgivness of sin and he designed repentance in such a way that we can attain a good enough level of perfection for god to pick us up and complete the process making a perfectly good individual. Lets get back to the Hebrew definition of tamiym, one of the translations is whole, or complete…

evil; -- contrary to moral rectitude; contrary to the nature of God, which necessarily includes all good…”. God saw us for who we truly were but still allowed His relationship with us to move passed legal justification, which we truly deserve. Repentance is also a topic that will be noted in regard to sanctification. John Wesley’s sermon The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption states, “But at first ye knew it not, though ye were wallowing daily in your sins and in your blood; till,…

In both 2 Kings 21 and 2 Chronicles 33, Manasseh; King of Judah, was explained under two different accounts to the main purpose for each chapter. Although both conclude with the same meaning and purpose, each chapter embodies different reasons to the purpose. In 2 Kings 21, His purpose was not to demonstrate the failure of God’s promise to David. He, rather wanted to show that salvation was still linked to the Davidic dynasty and the Jerusalem temple to prove that God had not abandoned his basic…

to teach His disciples that no matter how much they sinned in life, if they came back to God, and asked for forgiveness, He will be able to forgive you and welcome you back no matter what. God is a forgiving God. God forgives those who asks for repentance and is able to not go back to commit that sin again. Christ came to die for our sins in order to open a way for…

When we talk about the Great Commission, it is mostly about the Matthew 28 passage. However, the Luke 24 passage also give us insights about how to prepare the evangelists and missionaries. From a universal perspective, Luke is also on target about mission. If we look at the unity between the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts, we should arrive at the conclusion that Luke 24 is the preparation of Acts 1-28 and Acts 29. Of course, the result of Luke-Acts is Revelation. Therefore, to accomplish…

while also praying to God to bring him back to his Kingdom in Jerusalem. Chronicles considers his repentance important by writing how his son Amon was evil, but failed to humble himself as his father had done before the Lord. In Chronicles, the author seems to be encouraging his audience to repent and humble themselves before God as Manasseh had done; only then will…

and sin at the hands of Satan and forbidden fruit. Swallowing the fruit and their pride, Adam and Eve were forced to leave the Garden as punishment. Through their sin, Adam and Eve learned the difference between right and wrong. And through their repentance, God was able to forgive them. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, he highlights the transgressions and penitence of his characters in a Puritan society. The story follows the trinity of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger…

While Dimmesdale does hide his transgressions from the Puritan community, Dimmesdale conclusively offers repentance to the people at the end of the novel. Many times we witness Hawthorne use the sun as a representation of innocence or virtue, here we see the sun shine upon Dimmesdale metaphorically illustrating his sins being forgiven and his virtue being returned…

could have attacked a servant, but he didn’t care. In the end, we have to realize that this is the man who killed all the other characters and, by his own fascination with fruit as a representation of character, we must condemn him, even in his repentance. Bosola is the one who…