IF YOU WILL ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE. YOU WILL BE BLESSED WITH THE HOLY SPIRT. JUST PRAY THIS PRAYER: JESUS, I BELIEVE THAT YOU DIED ON THE CROSS FOR ME. I ASK YOU LORD JESUS TO COME INTO MY HEART AND FORGIVE ME ALL OF MY SINS. I MAKE YOU LORD AND MASTER OF MY LIFE. IT'S THAT SIMPLE! FIND A GOOD BIBLE BASED CHURCH. PUT GOD FIRST IN YOUR LIFE. YOU ARE IN FOR A WONDERFUL LIFE. GOD BLESS YOU!
2007-01-22 12:39:07 · 16 answers · asked by DE-NICE 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I have and I have received His Holy Spirit, and know that there is not one single church that stands in righteousness with the Lord. They have all become luke warm being neither hot nor cold. The day is coming that the Lord of Hosts will bring them to a boil.
2007-01-22 12:46:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The way I look at it, acceptance is a misguided response to what the Holy Spirit does for us in our hearts. We don't need to authorize what He has done, as if the Almighty is subject to our whims. Sure, Jesus stands at the door and knocks, but the way I look at it, somebody, i.e. the Holy Spirit, has to turn the light on if it's all dark in there and the pull change is on the ceiling where you can't reach it. It's the light that makes you run toward the door to answer it, and if God has taken care of both light and the knocking, you WILL answer the door, 'cause you want to, not because you have to. Joy, rather than duty and self-reliance, is my brand of Christianity. And a church with a good Calvinist theology is the Bible-based church that I would recommend.
2007-01-24 08:34:17 · answer #2 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, picking your question apart: Is accepting Jesus into your heart Biblical? - Not really. We don't tell God what to do. Our hearts are naturally clouded with sin anyway. Can anyone show me in the Bible where someone accepted Jesus into their heart? - Some people infer this from verses here and there, and you're right, it doesn't fit with God's sovereignty. If we don't find people accepting Jesus into their heart for salvation, then why do some people do it? - Because it looks good on paper, that's why. If I am correct, Paul was writing to a saved church in Romans 10:9. Why would he tell saved people how to get saved? - Exactly. Also, if you say baptism is not part of salvation and is "works", then can you explain how saying a prayer and accepting Jesus into your heart is not a "work". - Cheap grace. "All you have to do" salvation. Yup, I agree. We can go even further with this. Why would Jesus (in John 3:5) refer to water as part of the new birth, yet it be symbolic? - No kidding. It must be a covenant, after all. This would mean our Lord was refering to the Spirit as literal, yet be refering to water as symbolic. This is senseless. - Not sure what you're getting at, but baptism CAN also point to a pouring (get it?) out of the Holy Spirit. The Jews were familier with water as part of Old Testament salvation. If they didn't wash with water in the temple they would be killed. - Baptism's waters point to cleansing of sins through the propitiation of Jesus. So yes, you have a point in the seriousness of it. Nicodemus was obviously familier with Jewish customs, so he could understand Jesus referance to water to be literal, not symbolic. Acts 2:38 backs up John 3:5 - What's the gift of the Holy Spirit? Glossalalia? Or a new life in Him? I'd go for the bigger picture.
2016-05-23 23:16:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
forgive me for my confusion. some say Jesus is the son of God. Others say that Jesus is God. Since little, i've always wonder how Jesus can be the son of God and the God at the same time. If Jesus is God, then God was baby who was born with blood all over him, need to be feed, and have to learn. And later, the great God was murdered by some weak human? God should be better than that. And now some people say that he have child. So, that baby would be like the grandchild of God and also the child of God? So much confusion. Maybe it is you who've been confused. Who have the final say then? God-father, Jesus-God or baby-Jesus God? lets have some critical thinking about that. i'm going to convert to religion with only one God. life should be simple. simple is good, but not any simpler.what about you?
2007-01-24 03:00:36 · answer #4 · answered by alexis christian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would accept Jesus Christ into my life at any given day or month or year, because he is the reason why we are here, and furthermore, too denied yourself fully, and make him domain over you would be the best thing that ever happen in anybody life, and for your life. This world is coming too and end, and I don't want too be here with the Fire, and Brimstones coming down on me when I can have eternal everlasting life with my father.
2007-01-22 12:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by mamania0625 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If this is all that one has to do, then you have just reduced all of salvation down to a magic formula (magic because evidently you need the right words to say). This prayer and this notion are pretty unbiblical. Where does Jesus say to accept him into your heart?
2007-01-22 12:47:06 · answer #6 · answered by The Carmelite 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lamest sales pitch. At least the Jehovah's Witnesses offered me a raffle ticket.
2007-01-22 12:59:02 · answer #7 · answered by bishonenofcacophony 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
open your heart to jesus....o my!!!!!
let jesus enter your heart! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
maybe your intentions are good but i cannot stop laughing about the way you put it all...why dont you try to use your own words, instead of parroting all these open your heart stuff. I am bored about it and dont really see what does it mean. Opn your heart??? What the hell is to open my heart? when is it a heart closed? A heart is not an anus that can open and close
2007-01-22 12:46:45 · answer #8 · answered by whoknows 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Would you like to embrace Zeus? Ahura Mazda?The Flying Spaghetti Monster? The Invisible Pink Unicorn?
No? Why not?
And what makes you think we have any need for your particular god? can you show us how it's better than the others?
2007-01-22 12:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
G-d is first in my life----but, not thru a man named Jesus, who lived and died 2,000 years ago. There is no G-d but G-d, and Jesus is not Him.
2007-01-22 12:44:21 · answer #10 · answered by Shossi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋