Repentance is like breaking out kitchen cupboards. It's fun if you're the one doing the breaking, but it hurts to be the cupboard. Everything inside of you gets exposed - you have nowhere to hide anything, anymore. Every single thing that has ever been placed inside you, needs to be removed. You, the old cupboard, has to be thrown away; it can't be fixed, it has to be replaced with a new one. The way you are now, is completely useless. You need the Carpenter to give you a new body. And He's already done it in you. Religion says: do. Jesus says: DONE!