[Risky-Riskerdo]

When St. John the Forerunner called for repentance, can his call most accuarelty be described as a call to repent or a call to do penance?

To repent, not do penance. To do penance to atone for sins committed after baptism is the invention of the Roman Catholic religion, and is a perversion of the Gospel of Christ.

[annalex]

To repent, not do penance

Let us see. A celibate man wearing a hairshirt, living in the desert in perpetual fast, -- is he doing something or is he having himself a mind change?

To do penance to atone for sins committed after baptism is the invention of the Roman Catholic religion, and is a perversion of the Gospel of Christ

3 Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him. 4 And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying, I repent; forgive him.

(Luke 17)