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‘Return to Me’: A Biblical Theology of Repentance is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you” (Zechariah 1:3). Repentance concerns the repair of a relationship with God disrupted by human sin. All the major phases of church history have seen diversity and controversy over the doctrine of repentance. The first of Luther’s famous ninety-five theses nailed to the church door in Wittenburg in 1517 stated that “the entire life of...

be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s. But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.’ Pharaoh admits his sinful act (‘I have sinned this time’) and culpability (‘I and my people are the wicked ones’) and declares God’s innocence and justice (‘the LORD is the righteous one’). The Egyptian king also makes a verbal commitment to behavioural change (‘I will let you go’). As with Abimelech there is a mediatorial dimension to repentance as Pharaoh
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