Are ALL called to REPENTANCE ?

[dan p]

Hi to all and Matt 3:2 John calls Israel to Repentance !!

In Matt 4:17 , even Jesus says , " Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand ."

How can a person Repent , whem 1 Cor 2:14 , " But the NATURAL MAN receiveth not the Things of the Spirit of God for they are FOOLISHNESS unto him , neither can he know them , because they are SPIRITUALLY discerned .

We see that Israel was Defintely called to Repent !!

But , where are Gentiles called to REPENT ??

Dan p

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"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that ALL people everywhere should repent" (Acts 17:30).

[dan p]

"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that ALL people everywhere should repent" (Acts 17:30).

Hi , since Repent , just means a change of mind , what are THEY to Repent of ??

Does Acts 17:30 and Acts 26:20 calling Gentiles of today to Repent ?

dan p

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Hi , since Repent , just means a change of mind , what are THEY to Repent of ??

See Rom. 1:29-2:5 and 2 Cor. 7:10 and 2 Cor. 2:25.

Does Acts 17:30 and Acts 26:20 calling Gentiles of today to Repent ?

"He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;...therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness..." (Acts 17). "Behold, now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2).

[Noeb]

Hi to all and Matt 3:2 John calls Israel to Repentance !!

In Matt 4:17 , even Jesus says , " Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand ."

How can a person Repent , whem 1 Cor 2:14 , " But the NATURAL MAN receiveth not the Things of the Spirit of God for they are FOOLISHNESS unto him , neither can he know them , because they are SPIRITUALLY discerned .

In 1Cor 2, what "things" are mentioned? There's only one

1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

wisdom in a mystery -Christ crucified -buried and raised (the power to deliver from sinning-1Co 1:18 .....the preaching of the cross to us which are saved is the power of God.) (what God has given (prepared) us)

Do you understand these? Did you when you got saved? What does this say?

1Co 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect:

ESV: 1Co 2:6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom

Did the apostles speak this wisdom to the unregenerate? Or did they speak the wisdom that is in the mystery to Christians?

When it says

1Co 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

The point is that no one knew the wisdom that was in the mystery at that time because it was hidden, not that they could not if it had been revealed. If the mystery had been revealed at that time they would not have crucified Jesus.

Look at the context of "things of the Spirit" that God has already done. Not will do in the future.

Isa 64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Isa 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.


ESV: Isa 64:3 When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
Isa 64:4 From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

Paul is saying, God did in Christ what no one looked for. Christ crucified -buried and raised. Why would Paul quote that and mean the future?

Where is repentance in the context? Don't read repentance into "things of the Spirit". Paul is making a point here and it's not that the unregenerate cannot change there mind about the living God because we know man can because man is commanded to. The church at Corinth has a problem. They are putting too much into man and forgetting who and what message changed them (1Co 1:26-31). That God did all things in Christ and they did not look for it (1Co 2:9, Isa 64:3-4) . Why do they now look at men (1Cor 3-4)? This theme runs from chapters 1-4.

[Noeb]

Hi , since Repent , just means a change of mind , what are THEY to Repent of ??

Does Acts 17:30 and Acts 26:20 calling Gentiles of today to Repent ?

dan p

They are to repent of what the context says. Idolatry. Repentance is changing your mind from putting your faith in one way, to another. Stop putting your faith in idols and put it in the Lord of heaven and earth.

Act 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Act 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Act 17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Act 17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
Act 17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Act 17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Act 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Act 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Act 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Act 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: