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Confess, Confession. The biblical concepts expressed by the words "confess" and "confession" have in common the idea of an acknowledgment of something. This is the root idea of the two verbs that lie behind the great majority of occurrences of the words "confess" and "confession" in the English Bible: Hebrew yadaa [h'd"y] (in the hiphil root ...
To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. 2. (v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. 3. (v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
Paromologia; or Confession. The biblical concepts expressed by the words "confess" and "confession" have in common the idea of an acknowledgment of something. This is the root idea of the two verbs that lie behind the great majority of occurrences of the words "confess" and "confession" in the English Bible: Hebrew yadaa [ יָדָה ...
When man is said to confess or make confession, the contents of the confession are variously distinguished. All, however, may be grouped under two heads, confession of faith and confession of sin. Confessions of faith are public acknowledgments of fidelity to God, and to the truth through which God is revealed, as 1 Kings 8:33.
2. (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. 3. (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. 4. (n.) A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
According to the Bible, confession means agreeing with God about who we are—sinners— acknowledging specific sins before God as we recognize them, and humbly admitting our sin to others. But we don't confess just to get our failures off our chest. We confess because God promises to both forgive and cleanse those who do (1 John 1:8-9).
Confession, Biblically, possesses a richness of meaning which goes far beyond its secular usage. To promise, admit, concede, declare, attest, or witness are all Eng. equivalents of Biblical confession, with varying shades of signification. Biblical confession, however, involves one or more of three elements: God is praised, or sin is ...
