I have a one-sentence answer, Stuart: It's a gross error to separate belief and repentance. That is, if someone "says" they believe, but they don't repent, they don't know what they're saying. It's like saying they have bread with no flour.
I think it's interesting that you'd ask this because Luther's first of the 95 Theses stated: "Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance." And this is also, frankly, the point of all the proclamations of the Gospel in the NT which I have linked to so far.
In that respect, I would also cite the London Baptist Confession of Faith:
I think it's interesting that you'd ask this because Luther's first of the 95 Theses stated: "Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance." And this is also, frankly, the point of all the proclamations of the Gospel in the NT which I have linked to so far.
In that respect, I would also cite the London Baptist Confession of Faith:
Such of the elect as are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served various lusts and pleasures, God in their effectual calling gives them repentance unto life.
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This saving repentance is an evangelical grace, whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self-abhorrency, praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavour, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well-pleasing in all things.
As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so it is every man's duty to repent of his particular known sins particularly.
Such is the provision which God has made through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers unto salvation; that although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation; yet there is no sin so great that it shall bring damnation on them that repent; which makes the constant preaching of repentance necessary. [LBCF, Chpt XV, sections 1, 3 & 4]
This is centuri0n, aka Frank Turk, who has been an internet apologist for about 10 years and has never really gained anything for himself through it but a handful of friends and a lot of ill-will. Most people, honestly, do not like to argue with him because he doesn't know how to let it go. He's a blogger of some minor note, and he's a "calvinist".
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