Repentance is a Homonym

Repentance is necessary for salvation.  Continuing to be an axe murderer after salvation is not a lack of repentance by this definition.  We must repent of our sins to grow in grace.  Repentance is not necessary for salvation by this definition.  The word "repentance" has one general meaning, but it is used as a homonym of itself in these separate situations.  We must turn toward Christ and away from our flesh to be saved.  We do that by believing the tenets of the gospel as given in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and by calling on the name of the Master by verbally confessing Master Jesus in response to believing those things.  After we do, we no longer practice sin, but our flesh still does (Romans 7).  We must then turn away from our sin in a colloquial way of speaking, but we are really cleaning our minds of the memory of sin.  If we try to like it, we have to harden our hearts and burn out our consciences, which hurts us terribly.  This is different from the indulgence of sin we easily and greedily indulged before becoming a new creation by our new birth through baptism of the Holy Spirit into Christ.  Really, we are not repenting from sin toward something else, because we already have Christ when we have already been born again.  But we still often use and hear that word used.  Don't be confused by it.  Sanctification is, indeed, a different matter from salvation, just as much as pushing with our will is different from giving in to Christ by belief and the mere act of verbal confession one time.  If we say we stop believing, we never believed and confessed, because, once made a new creature, it's literally impossible to become anything else.  Christ's great salvation was needed to change us into new creatures, and we don't have the ability or power or authority to change ourselves back, no matter how much we misbehave.  Salvation is status and sanctification is action.  They are two separate things, so let's keep them separate and stop worrying about losing our salvation and stop mis-labelling people as Christians if they don't believe and confess.