If our problem is really sin – a fundamental breach in human existence – then repentance, not self-improvement, is the first requirement. This is the biblical view of the foundations of morality. The prophets, John the Baptist, Jesus, and Paul all beckoned their hearers to a new life by calling them first to give up the old in repentance (Mark 1:15; Luke 13:3,5; Acts 26:20; Rom. 2:4; 2 Cor. 7:9-10).
Repentance is the absolutely inescapable first step of the Christian moral life. Without repentance, the Christian moral life is impossible.
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