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Repentance in the Bible — Hidden Meaning & Symbolism

Repentance = turning the mind around from error back toward truth. It is not shame or punishment. Repentance is the inner change of direction: you were going one way in wrong thinking, and you turn and go back toward the light. That turn is the whole of it.

Read the whole map. Every symbol in the Bible is a state of your own mind — the book lays out the entire system, from Genesis to Revelation, in plain language.

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