re: The most misunderstood, and misapplied word in the English language is “repent”

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Why should we listen to you when you don’t know simple conjunctions

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maybe you meant contractions? do you know what a conjunction is? your correct words should have been possessive pronouns.

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The English word “repent” comes from the Greek word (metanoia)

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Actually

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from Old French repentir, from re-, here used as an intensive prefix, "very much", + Vulgar Latin *penitire "to regret," from Latin poenitire "make sorry".

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Repent is also a military command. It means to literally turn on a dime, and walk in the opposite direction. Thats what repentance is. And it does mean to be penitent, and sorrowful, along with changing your ways. The very first Biblical usage comes from the Hebrew 'nâcham', not 'metanoe' (by implication to be sorry, i.e. to pity, console or (reflexively) rue)

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Genesis, KJV

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

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Next came the flood. The Lord very clearly demonstrated a change in his ways, and he stopped everything he had done involving the creation of man at that point. And started over

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The English word “repent” comes from the Greek word (metanoia) which literally means “a change of mind” or “after-thought”. It comes from: • (meta) = after, beyond, or change •. (nous) ? ???a (noia) = mind, thought

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No.

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The word "repent" has a complex etymology, tracing back to Old French and ultimately to Latin. The verb "repent" originates from the Old French "repentir," which combines the prefix "re-" (meaning "again" or "back") with "pentir," meaning "to be sorry" or "to feel sorrow". This "pentir" comes from the Latin "paenitere," which means "to regret" or "to be sorry," and is related to the Latin word "poena," meaning "penal" or "punishment,"

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Once your mind is changed about something, it’s followed up by actions. Surely you can understand this right?

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Immediately, an it’s to believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation according to scripture.

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The most misunderstood, and misapplied word in the English language

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I think it’s “affect”.

Another fascinating etymological rabbit hole is dog and hound

If you've seen the Patriot perhaps you notice Cornwallis refers to his dogs as "beautiful hounds", yet they are Great Danes, and not "hounds" as we view in the modern sense which typically refers to dogs bred for hunting like "blood hounds" or "basset hounds".

So what gives? It's very interesting and probably the only instance I know of where there seems to be a legitimately spontaneous creation of an Old English Word that is still in usage today.

Hound used to be THE term for all dogs. From proto-Germanic "hund" which means hunt... and this term traces all the way back to Indo-European roots. So all dogs were called hounds.

Then suddenly for some reason this term started to become narrowed down to hunting canines, as we know it today. This started to happen around 1100. Why? No idea.

So then Old English was like "well, ok, now we narrowed down the term Hound, but we screwed ourselves because now we need a more general term for all canines, not just ones used for hunting?"

English borrows many words fom French... so you would think we would adopt chien from French (their word for dog), which is based of the Latin canis which gives us canine.... or maybe use the Latin term itself?

But no!

We didn't borrow a French word like what was somewhat the norm after the Norman conquest in 1066.

The word dog comes from the Old English word docga which appears so rarely before its seemingly out of nowhere usage in the Old to Middle Ages where it fills in the role for all canines that the specification of hound left needing to be filled.

Dog literally has no cognate in Proto-Germanic nor Proto-Indo-European that some scholars just settle on the most likely explaination that the English just..... made it up!

So hound used to mean ALL dogs, then became specific to hunting dogs, and Dog was invented to fill in the gap. Not the other way around where Dog meant all Dogs initially and Hound was invented to specify hunting dogs only.

This is probably one of my favorite word histories.

And a testament to how English is such a bastard child of a Language. German? French? Latin? Indo European? Made up words? They're all in there.

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Mike da Tigah

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I’ve been discussing religion on this board for 18 years. I used to think like you (when I was 18). Your system of doctrine is easy. It keeps you comfortable and helps you sleep at night. One day, though not likely, I hope you’ll see that it’s largely an invention to help people make sense of more difficult things.

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That’s irrelevant.

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It’s the most relevant because it points to your need for a savior to impart His righteousness unto you through your faith in Him as indicated throughout scripture as the only hope for salvation. You doing better or being a better person simply does not meet the mark of perfection that Christ does who paid the price for your sins.

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I believe in grace too. We differ on “belief”
…or more accurately, what it means to believe.

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You either believe upon Christ for your salvation or you don’t, or you mix it with yourself. There’s a very real difference in between salvation and sanctification, and there is never an assurance of salvation when you’re in the mix, because it is now contingent upon your performance and not the finished work of Christ. Give me a metric for that performance in scripture besides perfection.