Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Ph.D. Student, Department of Qur'an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University of Tehran
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Associate Professor, Department of Religions and Mysticism, Islamic Azad University, Yadegar Imam Khomeini (RAH) Branch, Shahr-e Rey, Tehran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Qur'an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University of Tehran
Abstract
Commitment of a sin and the repentance afterwards are among the issues that have been very controversial in the history of Christian and Islamic thought, considering that talking about sin, along with the category of repentance, will lead to the forgiveness of a person. Thus, using the comparative method, while examining sin and repentance in terms of lexicology and terminology in the Bible and the Qur'an, this research has tried to present the similarities and differences of referents, factors and punishments of sin, as well as the conditions and stages of realizing repentance and its worldly and Hereafter effects in these two Holy Scriptures. The impressions of the Bible show that all human beings are born sinful and sins are forgiven by repentance after baptism. But the Qur'an states that humans are born with a pure nature. Both Holy Scriptures have introduced repentance as a factor of liberation from sin, but the procedure of this liberation is different in the two religions. In Christianity, after the baptism ceremony, repentance is done by the sinner's confession to the priest, while in the Qur'an, confession of sin is not allowed to be made to anyone other than to Allah.
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