Luke 24
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Repentance of mind to believe the gospel is what grants remission of sins.
Acts 10:43 KJV
[43] To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
When a person believes they have repented of unbelief (or whatever they believed in before) to believe the gospel. It is not repentance from sin that saves.
Peter also preached repentance here.
Acts 3:19
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
Repent and be converted essentially means "Believe the gospel and be saved."
Peter urged Simon to repent of his wicked thought he expressed to buy a gift of God.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Well if you know the story, even before the man committed wickedness by his request to purchase the ability to work miracles, HE WAS ALREADY SAVED.
Acts 8:13
13
Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
This man was already saved, if you know what salvation is. Of course he still has to repent of evil, but he was already saved. Once again proving that salvation is not about repentance from sin.
This expresses the understanding of the word 'repentance' early Christians in the Jerusalem church had:
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Actually it only reveals your complete lack of understanding of salvation.
Paul pointed out Gentile idolatry and told them to repent, before telling his audience about Jesus.
Acts 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
I see no reference to this repentance granting everlasting life, eternal life, life of any kind. This is not a salvation verse (and in fact, none of these verses are; yet somehow in your mind they are all about salvation, when it's not even written anywhere).
Does it say that God commands every man to repent of sins to be saved? NO IT DOESN'T!
Here Paul describes his preaching:
Acts 26:20-21
20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
I see no reference to this repentance granting everlasting life, eternal life, life of any kind. This is not a salvation verse (and in fact, none of these verses are; yet somehow in your mind they are all about salvation, when it's not even written anywhere).
Paul apparently believed that believing in Jesus had some implications for the individual's behavior. Jesus said we would know a tree by its fruit
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That's because you seem to think that believe means more than believe, when believe just means believe. There is no implication for their behavior whatsoever. A believer can still commit sin unto death and God can take their life early for it, but their soul will be preserved and remain saved and they go straight to heaven upon death.
Notice the contrast between perishing and coming to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
If a person doesn't believe the gospel, that person will perish. Does it say repent from sins to be saved anywhere? No. Because there are two kinds of repentance but for some reason people only think there is one. And even that one type of repentance which they (think they) know, somehow they don't think that is works based when obviously repentance from sin is definitely work.
A good man is above pettiness. He is better than that.