If you've ever gotten an invitation to a party, you know you don't have to go. You can just stay home and ignore the offer. You might have a good reason for staying home-after all, we all have things to do-but often times you don't know what you'll be missing at the party. Repentance is a bit like that, in my view. God offers it fully and no, we don't have to accept it, but we'll miss out if we don't.
If you don't know you are doing something wrong or refuse to believe it, then the offer of repentance is a weird thing to you. You could be in denial or you could be so lost in the sin that it clouds your judgement, but it's still sin and you still need to repent. For some people even the thought of repentance is somehow offensive, but I think it's just the opposite. God freely gives us the opportunity to always repent from our behavior, no matter how often we do it or how stuck in sin we might be. His arms are always open.
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