Exodus 13:17 KJB
[17] And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:


If “repent” = “repent of your sins”:

Was God concerned the people would repent of their sins if they saw war?

It is clear that “repent” means a change of mind.

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If “repent” = “repent of your sins” , that would mean that God is a sinner.

Rather, the true meaning of Repent” is a change of mind

Verses from the law and historical books:

Genesis 6:6-7 KJV
[6] And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. [7] And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Exodus 32:14 KJV
[14] And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Deuteronomy 32:36 KJV
[36] For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

Judges 2:18 KJV
[18] And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

1 Samuel 15:11 KJV
[11] It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:35 KJV
[35] And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

2 Samuel 24:16 KJV
[16] And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15 KJV
[15] And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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"Repent of sins" people who always believed in repent-of-sins-for-salvation clearly only trust their WORKS of turning from sin/stop sinning, which is why they are heading for the Lake of Fire because they are still unsaved people who believed not and yet trust their vain works of not sinning/turning from sin to save them 😭

  Revelation   21:8   KJB
[8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

  Matthew   7:22 - 23   KJB
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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The damnable heresy that is called 'repent of of your sins to be saved' frustrates the gospel.

Galatians 2:21 (KJV)

²¹I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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Repentance and Salvation by Pastor Steven Anderson https://youtu.be/6_9GrlGmgFY?

Excellent Sermon that clarifies many details on repentance

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Sin is the transgression of the law, so if you are trying to repent of sin, are you inside or outside the law?

Romans 4:15 KJV
[15] Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

To be saved, we need the righteousness of God. That righteousness is Christ Jesus, and it is OUTSIDE THE LAW.

Romans 3:21-23 KJV
[21] But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;


Notice, the promise which was to Abraham the father of faith, was NOT through the law. Indeed, if the law was the way to the inheritance, faith is completely void.

Romans 4:13-15 KJV
[13] For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. [14] For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: [15] Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.


Galatians 3:26,29 KJV
[26] For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. [29] And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 11:6 KJV
[6] And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

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What the Bible ACTUALLY SAYS:

Matthew 3:2 KJB/KJV
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ✅

What OTHER VERSIONS (from Vaticanus+Sinaiticus) say:
AMPC
And saying, Repent (think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.❌
CEB
“Change your hearts and lives! Here comes the kingdom of heaven!”❌
CJB
“Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!”❌
DRA
And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.❌
ERV
John said, “Change your hearts and lives, because God’s kingdom is now very near.”❌
EASY
He told people, ‘You have done many wrong things. You must turn away from them and change how you live. Do this now, because the kingdom of heaven has come very near.’❌
GW
“Turn to God and change the way you think and act, because the kingdom of heaven is near.”❌
GNT
“Turn away from your sins,” he said, “because the Kingdom of heaven is near!”❌
TLB
“Turn from your sins . . . turn to God . . . for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming soon.”❌
MSG
While Jesus was living in the Galilean hills, John, called “the Baptizer,” was preaching in the desert country of Judea. His message was simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your life. God’s kingdom is here.”❌
NOG
“Turn to God and change the way you think and act, because the kingdom of heaven is near❌
NCV
John said, “Change your hearts and lives because the kingdom of heaven is near❌
NIRV
He said, “Turn away from your sins! The kingdom of heaven has come near.”❌
NLV
He said, “Be sorry for your sins and turn from them! The holy nation of heaven is near.”❌
NLT
“Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”
OJB
saying, Make teshuva, for the Malchut HaShomayim has come near. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ❌
TLV
“Turn away from your sins, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”❌
WE NT
He said, Stop doing wrong things and turn back to God! The kingdom of heaven is almost here.'❌
WYC
and said, Do ye penance, for the kingdom of heavens shall approach.❌
YLT
and saying, Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'❌
Notice modern versions add unbiblical works-salvationism heresies into, and push and equate various works salvationisms with, the word repent/repentance.
ℝ𝕖𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝔼𝕩𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕕 & 𝕬𝖓𝖙𝖎 𝕸𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖓 𝐕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘

Thank you, as this will be helpful for the Anti Modern Versions channel.

Real, biblical repentance is changing our mind by turning from unbelief to believing on the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

"Repent of sins" is unbiblical as shown by the two KJB verses below.

Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Mark 1:14 - 15 KJB

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah 3:10 KJB

God repented. Did He sin? No. So does repent mean turn from sin? No, because God repented because He was going to overthow Nineveh by doing evil to them but then he did not do the evil to Nineveh. The way God went from saying He would do evil to Ninevah, to not doing the evil to Ninevah's people, is that God changed His mind on what He was planning to do/going to do.
Repent means a change his mind.

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Is repenting of/turning from sin a works based salvationism?
Let's search the Scriptures:

The works of the people of Nineveh, was they turned from their evil way

Jonah 3:10 KJB📖
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

What works of turning from evil way did the people of Nineveh do? When we look at Jonah 3:5-9 KJB, we see all specific works of turning from sin that they did, which are mentioned below:

-They (people of Nineveh) proclaimed a fast
-They put on sackcloth
-The king of Nineveh laid his robe from him, covered him[self] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
-The king of Nineveh and his nobles proclaimed and published the decree to not let man or beast, herd or flock, to taste anything, feed, or drink water, and that man and beast be covered with sackcloth, cry mightily unto God, and turn from their evil way and the violence in their (people of Nineveh's) hands.
-The people of Nineveh, along with the king of Nineveh and his nobles, followed the decree and covered both themselves and all their beasts with sackcloth, cried unto God, and turned from their evil ways and violence, because immediately God sees the people of Nineveh's works that they turned from their evil way.

Jonah 3:4 - 10 KJB
[4] And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
[5] So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
[6] For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
[7] And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
[8] but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
[9] Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
[10] And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

At this point, this is when the repent-of-sins-to-be-saved crowd & the turn-from-sins-to-be-saved crowd, will attempt to use Jonah 3:9-10 to claim "see, turn and repent are right next to each other, so repent is turn and thus to repent is to turn from sins to be saved".
However, they ignore the biblical fact that when Nineveh's king said "Who can tell if God will turn and repent" in the first half of Jonah 3:9, the second half/part of Jonah 3:9 reveals that the king of Nineveh pleaded and wanted God to turns from this - that God turn by turning away from His fierce anger, not from sins, so that the king, his nobles, and Nineveh's people would not perish.

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jonah 3:9 KJB

Turning from evil ways is a work (Jonah 3:10). Evil ways are sins as per 2 Kings 15:27 - 28 KJB & 1 Kings 13:33-34
In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. [28] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:27-28 KJB

1 Kings 13:33-34 KJB
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. [34] And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

Conclusion: Turning from evil way/sin is a work.

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