Repent or Perish. This is a hard teaching of Christ. It is unrelenting and direct in its objective but as are all things with Christ it is rooted in unconditional love. The word that Christ would have used to say repent is the word Metanoia. While the concept of repentance has been distorted and perverted into meaning to simply stop sinning, the word that Christ used is a word that means to think differently. Gods heart is not focused solely on our actions, but rather, on our motivations. Therefore, His charge to those that follow Him is not to resist the urge to act negatively. It is to seize the opportunity to act positively.
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