Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The book explores repentance as a refreshing practice for every life, connecting it to the Hebrew word Shuvah and emphasizing its role in personal and moral healing. It delves into the distinction between repentance, sin, and forgiveness, highlighting the importance of honesty and truthfulness in the process.
Sin is about pretending that something is true when in fact it is not. Adulatory is pretending that something is divine and worthy of our devotion when in fact it is not. And then you wrote repentance...
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The book explores repentance as a refreshing practice for every life, connecting it to the Hebrew word Shuvah and emphasizing its role in personal and moral healing. It delves into the distinction between repentance, sin, and forgiveness, highlighting the importance of honesty and truthfulness in the process.
Sin is about pretending that something is true when in fact it is not. Adulatory is pretending that something is divine and worthy of our devotion when in fact it is not. And then you wrote repentance is all about choosing truth over deception.
It is a the cost of ignoring the work of repentance which I think we do in our public life right are not easily quantifiable but the evidence is all around us. We see it in the lives of public figures politicians and corporate executives who get caught in some deceitful or fraudulent behavior and deny it.
The ultimate benefit of doing to you is that it offers us a way to overcome our past precisely because we have confronted and taken full responsibility for it. It enables us to escape the sense of guilt in some cases even despair with which many of us live.