[editor-surveyor]

>> “There’s a difference between confessing and repenting and doing works to pay off the debt we owe for our sin, as in penance.” <<

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I whole heartedly agree!

Any action we take to earn ‘goodness’ in the eye of God, like giving a pittance to a homeless shelter, or handing a buck to an obviously starving woman on the street, is an attempt at salvation by works.

That is grossly different than following Yehova’s Torah, which he has written on the heart of every real believer.

[D-fendr]

>>> “There’s a difference between confessing and repenting and doing works to pay off the debt we owe for our sin, as in penance.”

Can we “pay of the debt we owe for our sin” without confessing and repenting?

I.e., if we do not confess and repent.. ?