I'm Amy Hall. I'm here with Greg Cokel, and you're listening to Stand to Reasons, hashtag STR-Ask podcast.

So, Greg, today we have questions about repenting and believing and easy beliefism and all these kinds of questions. So we're going to start with one from PR. I came to faith in Christ when I heard and believed that Jesus died for my sins. I do not agree with the repent from your sin and believe salvation, which seems to be a work salvation.

How can someone repent without faith?

Well, I agree with that the way it's put.

The difficulty is in the way we have come to use certain words.

And in this case, the difficulty is with the word repent.

Now, the word repent does not mean turn from your sins.

It means change your mind or have a change or turn, if you will.

But it needs an object.

Now, when the text says, repent from your sins, now we have the object.

We know what the turning or the mind-changing is about.

Sometimes, by the way, the text says repentance towards God and faith in Jesus.

That's another characterization of it.

Not sure where it is, but the point there is you have wrong beliefs about God.

You need to change those beliefs, and that entails putting your faith in Jesus.

Okay.

Nothing about sin is manifest in the word repent, but this is the way the word, the connotation of the word, has come to be for us. You know,

you see placards and signs, repent. You see in movies, repent, there's the crazy man

on the street, repent, repent, you know, as if this word all by itself is all that's necessary

to be able to understand what God requires from us. Well, if you have more background information,

then the answer is one word is enough if you have the proper background information.

And I agree with the point that is a PR, that PR is making that you can't, if you're saying, okay, I'm promising to leave all my sins behind and I'm not going to sin anymore, now am I okay to receive

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