2007-01-13 11:45:23 · 28 answers · asked by Plato 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It gets on my nerves too when I already have.
2007-01-13 11:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't dislike the phrase and the person has to be willing to recieve Christ. You can't force someone to recieve Christ if they don't want to because the person has a free will. God is not pushy and he doesn't push himself on others.
Some Christians can be very excited when they come to know Christ and sometimes they are so excited they want to share their belief with others. I like to share with others but they also must be willing to listen.
I recieved Jesus as a child and then rededicated my life to God as an Adult. I didn't have the understanding that I have now. It takes commitment to believe and also a willingness to have faith and often step out in faith and sometimes do what you think would be impossible.
In a lot of ways things don't always make sense to us but they make perfect sense to God. He doesn't think in the same way we do.
If you are annoyed then maybe something inside is causing some conviction in you? It did for me when I wasn't truly following God at the time in my youth mainly because the holy spirit doesn't leave a person just because they left God. God is faithful even when we are faithless.
2007-01-13 11:54:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does it get on your nerves? For a person to be saved he needs to accept the payment that Jesus has made. Jesus died for the whole world, but each individual person needs to accept Him to be saved.
You have probably heard it so many times that it's beginning to annoy you. If you are a Christian, I would recommend you pray about that. It sounds like you have left your first love.
2007-01-13 11:52:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is trite and shallow and very man centred.
We are to seek God and our salvation in Jesus Christ and strive, as in agony, to enter in, by force if necessary. It is rather if He will accept us. We are in desperate need, not Him.
If we were truly convicted of our sin it is us who will become very personal and beg that we might be accepted for the sake of Jesus.
Whatever happened to the poor in spirit and those who mourn and who become meek and hunger and thirst after righteousness ? ?
If we are to but 'accept Jesus as our personal Saviour', whatever happened to the straight gate with few there be that find it ? ?
What about the ,"What shall we do?" and, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" we read of ? They were hardly told, Oh just accept Jesus as your personal Saviour ! !
Is the stubborn, rebellious, God hating heart of the natural man really so easily appealed to with such a casual and prissy direction ?
Why is it then that God is so near to the broken hearted and those crushed in spirit if they could but have accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour ?
I fear that those who say that phrase may not have heard His voice and not have come to the realisation of the extent of their own sin and wretchedness, nor understand that both faith and repentance are gifts of God and cannot be obtained but from Him.
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2007-01-13 12:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by Judd M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'm a Christian and that phrase really bugs me because acceptance is not how it works. Willing to receive is not how it works. Faith is a gift, given by God, not claimed or needing any authorization on our part. I can't tolerate the thought of God subjecting Himself to our whims like that, especially since the Bible does not support this perceived ability without word-twisting to suit what people want it to say.
2007-01-13 12:02:07 · answer #5 · answered by ccrider 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it might be a bit confusing to those who don't know what it means. First a person has to know whey they need a savior, and that would be because they have sinned. Jesus died to pay the price for those sins, and those who believe in Him will be saved from hell. I think that is a little clearer, since it tells the reason why one needs to believe.
2007-01-13 11:49:27 · answer #6 · answered by Esther 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can I ask what about it gets on your nerves? There may be better phrases, for different people, so what would you like it to be?
2007-01-13 11:49:06 · answer #7 · answered by Following the compass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't get on my nerves. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Savior?
2007-01-13 12:05:30 · answer #8 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does it get on your nerves?
and why would christians dislike that phrase if that's what makes us christians in the first place?
2007-01-13 11:50:52 · answer #9 · answered by in love... 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's what will get you into Heaven though. It's part of the Baptists' holy incantation. Jesus wants to make sure you believe in him. If you don't he is not amused, and you go to Hell.
Conact your local Baptist church for details, you can get saved spontaneously, and you can still sin; because the most important thing is that you believe in Jesus. You can still sin; just be discreet.
Even good people, righteous people, who belong to a religion whose God is not Jesus will go to Hell. And Hell is hideous, horrible...
2007-01-13 11:49:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Then don't accept Jesus-the choice is yours. That phrase never bugged me. Good luck in the afterlife if you don't.
2007-01-13 11:50:58 · answer #11 · answered by csburridge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋