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.
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)