A-Z: General definitions
- Pelops
- Penal substitution
- Penance
- Penelope
- Penitence
- Penitent
- Penitential Psalm
- Penny gaff
- Pentameter
- Pentateuch
- Pentecost
- Pentecostal Christian
- Pentheus
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Perdition
- Perepeteia
- Periphrasis
- Peris
- Perjoratively
- Persecution
- Persephone
- Perseus
- Perseus and Medusa
- Persian
- Persona
- Personified
- Personify
- Pessimism
- Peter
- Peter Abelard
- Peter Lombard
- Peterloo massacre
- Petit coffre
- Petrarch
- Petrarchan
- Petrarchan sonnet
- Pew
- Phaedra
- Phaethon
- Phaeton
- phallic
- Pharaoh
- Pharisee
- Phidian
- Philanthropist
- Philip II
- Philip Sidney
- Philippi
- Philistine
- Philoctetes
A-Z: General definitions: Penitence
Definition
An individual's sincere acknowledgement of their guilt, sinfulness and desire to seek forgiveness, especially the forgiveness of God. In former times, penitents often wore sackcloth, and had their heads daubed with ashes as a symbol of their repentance.Disobedience to the known will of God. According to Christian theology human beings have displayed a pre-disposition to sin since the Fall of Humankind.
1. The action of forgiving; pardon of a fault, remission of a debt.
2. Being freed from the burden of guilt, after committing a sin or crime, through being pardoned by the one hurt or offended.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
The act of turning away, or turning around from, one's sins, which includes feeling genuinely sorry for them, asking for the forgiveness of God and being willing to live in a different way in the future.
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