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When he comes home, he calls together his friends, his family and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance." —
Therefore, a non-habitual sinner will have an easier time repenting, because he or she will be less likely to repeat the sinful behavior. [7] The case of the habitual sinner is more complex. If the habitual sinner regrets his or her sin at all, that regret alone clearly does not translate into a change in behavior.
For before the mind of a sinner can be inclined to repentance, it must be excited by the knowledge of the Divine judgment. It remains for us, in the third place, to explain our position, that repentance consists of two parts—the mortification of the flesh and the vivification of the spirit....
The average person suffers in this world in order to atone for their sins, leaving his complete heavenly reward to be enjoyed; if one's repentance and atonement are not complete in this world, their suffering will continue in one of the lower gehinnom, and once their sins are completely atoned for, they join the righteous in heaven. The ...
Repentance (Hebrew: תשובה, literally, "return", pronounced tshuva or teshuva) is one element of atoning for sin in Judaism.Judaism recognizes that everybody sins on occasion, but that people can stop or minimize those occasions in the future by repenting for past transgressions.
[9] In Luke 15:7 Jesus says that those in heaven rejoice when a sinner repents. In Hebrews 12:1, the author refers to them as a "cloud of witnesses". According to Fr. Lawrence, "It was part of the Church's faith in the first century that those in heaven interceded for those on earth." [9]
The basis is evidently the Bible words It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (ark 10, 25, Matthew 19, 24, Luke 18, 25) and So there will also be joy in heaven over a sinner who repents before ninety-nine righteous who have no need of repentance (Luke 15:7).
When one repents with the correct intentions, one's sins are said to actually be transformed into merits. [5] Judaism describes various means of receiving atonement for sin (e.g. Temple sacrifices, judicial punishments, and returning stolen property). However, in general these methods only achieve atonement if one has also repented for the sin: