Hi ~

If you’ve read Untwisting Scriptures #4, then you already know what I think about the word “repentance.”

If not, here it is:

I’ve come to the conclusion that “repentance” is a misleading and all-around unacceptable substitute for the Greek word metanoia.

Metanoia is the word Jesus and John the Baptist (and others after them) used when they cried out, “Metanoia! [translated “Repent!”] For the Kingdom of heaven is at hand!”

Did they mean, “Be sorry for your sins! Because God is about to judge you!” the way we think when we hear that word?

Or were they really saying, “Allow your thinking paradigm to be blasted apart! Because something new and wondrous is about to happen”?

I wrote my study of metanoia in rough draft form on my blog. When I put it in the book, I edited and refined it, but for now you can still read the rough draft here.

You may walk away believing the same thing you believed before.

But I’d love for it to be after you’ve thought things through, instead of because you’re passively accepting what you’ve always been taught.

With you for getting to truth and seeing how it transforms us,

Rebecca

Untwisting Scriptures at heresthejoy.com

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