If you have accepted Jesus Chirst as your Lord and Savior say Amen! If not why have you not?

Question

Dear God:
I know that I'm a sinner. I deserve Hell. But You sent Jesus to die for my sins. I believe that He died and rose again. I ask you now to forgive my sins, once an for all. I now receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Personal Saviour. Please come into my heart and save me, Help me to know I am saved and live for You, the rest of my life. In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.

Answer 1

Oh I want to say way more than AMEN. I want to scream from the mountian tops that the Lord Jesus Christ is King. May Glory be to God, for he alone is worthy of our Praise.

Answer 2

Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality.

It’s only natural that those who believe (or play act at believing) that they have a direct line to the Almighty would feel superior to others. This is so obvious that it needs little elaboration. A brief look at religious terminology confirms it. Christians have often called themselves "God’s people," "the chosen people," "the elect," "the righteous," etc., while nonbelievers have been labeled "heathens," "infidels," and "atheistic Communists" (as if atheism and Communism are intimately connected). This sets up a two-tiered division of humanity, in which "God’s people" feel superior to those who are not "God’s people."

That many competing religions with contradictory beliefs make the same claim seems not to matter at all to the members of the various sects that claim to be the only carriers of "the true faith." The carnage that results when two competing sects of "God’s people" collide—as in Ireland and Palestine—would be quite amusing but for the suffering it causes.

Answer 3

Honestly I don't have that many problems with my self-esteem. And because I don't want easy, trite answers to life when here is no proof that you or anyone else knows anything about the (non)existence of deities, after-life, souls, etc.

Ergo, I do not believe. And I'm WAY too moral to be a Christian. I can't even begin to tell myself that I know what's best for everyone else in the world. Or that I know how everyone else should live. And I certainly don't believe in the innate unworthiness of humanity.

Answer 4

"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." --- Thomas Jefferson

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ is the greatest fiction of human history.” (Lord Bishop of Canterbury Commission, the Spiritual Head of England, 1910.)

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the blood sacrifice of the lamb of God, atonement are not the teachings of Jesus. These are all inventions of Saint Paul who never really met Jesus.” (Hastings Rashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil)

"Initially there were 34 gospels that were compiled by word of mouth. Four were chosen for unclear reasons and 30 were left behind [burned]. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

“There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences) ,

Although Nontrinitarian beliefs continued to multiply, and among some people (such as the Lombards in the West) it was dominant for hundreds of years afterward, the Trinitarians gained the immense power of the Roman Empire. Nontrinitarians typically argue that the primitive beliefs of the Christianity were systematically suppressed (often to the point of death), and that the historical record, perhaps also including the Scriptures of the New Testament, was altered as a consequence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism

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Answer 5

I'm glad you are happy with your choice to live your life by a storybook... and I hope it works out for you, but not believing it is just as valid of a choice.... and that's what works for me.

There's a difference between learning life lessons from a book, and defining your life by said book.... it wasn't meant to be followed verbatim.

Open eyes and an open mind make for a much more peaceful world.

Answer 6

You must be fairly new here. Otherwise, you would already know that dropping a bunch of your religion into a question box will get you only two responses. The believers will applaud you, the non-believers will not. No minds will be changed and you will get validation only if you ignore the non-believers' comments.

Answer 7

I never 'accepted' Jesus Christ into my heart. That is an Arminean belief, that one has the power to either accept, or reject God.

I was sitting minding my own business, happy as hell in my sin, when God chose to drag me out of it, give me a new life, a spiritual birth, whereby I was able to believe. He chose me, and I did not love Him (oh I 'thought' I did, but I was wrong) until He loved me first.

You MUST be born again. You didn't have a damn thing to do with your physical birth, so what would possibly make you think you could have anything to do with your spiritual birth?

Test yourself to see if you are in the faith. Come out of the comfort zone, see if you have a biblical rebirth to stand upon. Then shall your prayers be heard. Then shall you be given the ability to put down your old fleshly self and offer spiritual sacrifices worthy of God. Until then, you are only deceiving yourself to think that He has granted you eternal life with Him.

Matthew 7(King James Version)

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

If you think you chose Him, think again. An intellectual knowledge is also what the devils have, and they're pretty much afraid. So should you be, if you think you were in control of your 'decision' for Christ. It doesn't work that way.

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mommanuke - look how wrong you were.

Answer 8

Y --- Are you a Christian? I truly doubt it. I strongly suspect which you, like all who profess to be Christians, purely prepare their chosen faith, and ignore approximately authentic Christian practices. because by utilising now, i think you're protesting my premise loudly and angrily, i'm going to describe what i'm conversing approximately. a real Christian actively does those issues each and every waking 2nd of his or her life that Jesus did. Love thy neighbor, bless people who spitefully use you, provide all your earthly posessions to the unfavorable. Heal the unwell. convenience the lack of life. Feed the unfavorable. have you ever given the footwear off your ft to somebody who needed footwear? have you ever given your final dollar to somebody who grow to be hungry? have you ever taken a unwell guy or woman, who could no longer arise with the money for it, on your clinical professional and paid for the pass to out of your guy or woman pocket? Do you spend all it slow helping those much less fortunate which you? have you ever forsaken your earthly techniques and posessions and committed your finished being to following and prepare the classes of Jesus, for that's the authentic meaning of being a Christian. without actively training those issues Jesus taught and did on a on an usual basis foundation, each and all the pious prayers, church homes, crystal cathedrals, silken gowns, and spiritual paraphenalia isn't something yet pretentious, usless, window dressing. in the finished history of the worldwide because Jesus gave his life on the pass for us, i will think of of in basic terms 3 people who've dedicated their finished lives as authentic Christians: Jesus himself, St. Francis of Assisi, and mom Teresa.

Answer 9

I don't need a lord or a savior. I'm not a "sinner". I don't believe I deserve to go to a made up place of punishment. I don't believe any of that other crap you just said.

That's "why not".

Answer 10

I have not, for it requires me to believe stuff that I simply do not believe. Cannot believe, in fact, because of all the contradictory physical evidence. And the behaviour of those who have.

In short, it's cobblers.

Answer 11

I do not.

And you want to know why? Because of poisonous bigoted judgmental rants... Oh much like this one.

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