Uh. No. Breaking free from a corrupt system, printing the Word into a common language for all to read; just for a start. Nothing wrong with that. If someone can tell me where in the Bible it says I must do penance in order to receive forgiveness, please do so.
>>If someone can tell me where in the Bible it says I must do penance in order to receive forgiveness, please do so.<<
Luke 13:3
No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
Job 42:6
Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
Ecclesiasticus 2:22
If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men.
Jeremiah 31:19
For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth.
Lamentations 2:14
Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die.
Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
Matthew 11:20
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance.
Romans 2:4
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
Apocalypse 2:5
Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance, and do the first works. Or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou do penance.
And there’s more:
http://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/s?t=0&q=penance&b=drb