Originally Posted by
FunFromOz
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True statements, but
-"Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins;"
-(the disciples) went out and preached that men should repent.
-Peter said " Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord"
-Paul said he "kept declaring ... that (men) should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance."
-Paul said he "did not shrink from declaring (and) solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ."
-Jesus Himself said "unless you repent, you will all likewise perish"
-He also said "there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents"
-He said to them, "Thus it is written ... that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations"
Actually the only time I can literally see the words believe and repent in the same verse is where we are told that "after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.""
But given we are told so many times to repent without being told to believe then maybe we just need to repent, not believe?
Or perhaps it's both, as Paul says in Acts 20, "serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews; ... I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house, solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ."