Quick note on the Gospel of John:

The repentance Jesus offered people in John's Gospel was on the level of paradigms, not propositions.

IOW- Jesus agitated for changing 'how the mind minds' not simply to change people's minds.

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IOW- How they thought about what they thought needed to be changed; people had to 'look at their looker' so they could see differently so they could know something they couldn't know otherwise.

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IOW- The fundamental problem wasn't that people were sinful/stupid: it's that they were certain...committed to their frames rigidly...unwilling to lose control of their version of reality.

IOW- Repentance is about changing how we think so we can change what we think.

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