When did men have so much power? Where in the Bible does it say to tell someone they are saved or lead them to me? Isn't Jesus our mediator and not man? If you tell someone they are saved, then are you going to also be their judge too?
2007-12-12 09:51:27 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No you do not tell someone they are saved.How can you know that? Only 2 people knows whether they are saved or not. Them and God. Salvation is a personal thing between a person and God.
You can show a person what the Bible says. You can explain that if you are serious with God then he will be serious with you. You can even pray with them and for them. But salvation is between them and God. There is ONE mediator or intercessor between God and Man and his name is Jesus.
No priest,No pope,NO church Pastor has the authority or the ability to determine a person,s salvation only God can do that.
2007-12-12 13:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I am catching your drift, you must be referring to a preacher or pastor that lead people in prayer to accept Christ at the end of their crusade or message.
In reality, it is really not about the person leading the prayer, but it is more about the person following the prayer. If that person really meant it from the bottom of their heart that they acknowledges their sin, repent and accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior, then yes, they are saved. The pastor or preacher is merely informing them of that fact; kind of like telling someone that have blue eyes that their eye color is blue.
A good pastor would of course explain the prerequisites for being saved and not just lead someone in prayer and then declaring them to be saved.
Unfortunately there are so many pastor or preacher out there that give only one part (the popular and good part) of the true message of the bible nowadays.
You can't be saved unless you first understand that you fall short of His standard, repent and then believe. Just believing does not make you saved, if that is the case even Satan is saved, because Satan believed and fear in God.
2007-12-12 10:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by Supasuc 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are they dead?
I ask because of the words of Jesus, who said after talking about the last days of Jerusalem and the greater fulfillment of the last days of this wicked system, "He that has endured to the END is the one that will be saved." (Matt. 24:13)
Further proof no one is saved until all of there life is done are the words of Paul and Timothy at Philippians 3:12-14. They said they were not saved YET, but they looked to finishing the race of their lives for the prize.
If Timothy and Paul were not saved during their lives, why does anyone think they are better than them?
2007-12-12 10:14:17 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that all you have to do is say a little prayer and you are saved. There is a 'plan' of salvation. If you read Acts, Peter talks about what is necessary for salvation. Act 2:38, is hard to misinterpret. I do not believe that a man can deem you 'saved'.
2007-12-12 10:03:09 · answer #4 · answered by TKA0427 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are saved only when we acquire the power of the Lord for salvation (the gospel, according to Rom. 1:16). We acquire that gospel by being put into Christ (because we are united with Him in baptism Rom. 6:3,4; 1Corinthians 15:3, 4). We are saved by the Lord if we obey His conditions (Hebrews 5:9).
2007-12-12 10:01:48 · answer #5 · answered by garyenbaxter 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's fair to tell someone they're saved when they may not be. However, prayer can be a powerful took in feeling saved, so maybe this is all that's important. Men have so much power because we let them. It is possible to claim our own.
2007-12-12 09:59:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, let's see. What did Jesus say to do? Go out and make disciples of all nations. What else does the bible say? It says unless someone is told the gospel, how will they know? If we cannot tell a person how to be saved, how will anyone know that they are saved?
Christians don't make up what it takes to be saved. We look to God's word and show another that, just as God's word says, "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved". We are the messengers of the good news. Nothing wrong with repeating what Jesus Himself asked us to tell others!
2007-12-12 09:55:48 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
You are correct in the fact that the bible has no such prayer and no apostle ever used that method to save someone.
2007-12-12 10:13:15 · answer #8 · answered by enamel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point. Accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior is a personal decision between them and Jesus. It happens in the heart, and only Jesus can truly know if conversion took place. No one of us could ever know that simply from the words of a prayer. Sure, they can tell us themselves, and naturally we'd trust their sincerity, but that relationship, that conversion is for Jesus, of which only He knows for sure.
God bless.
2007-12-12 10:02:37 · answer #9 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Their are steps that you take to be saved and if you truly take these steps than you are saved. I personally would never tell someone that they are saved because I can not see what is in their heart to know if their intentions are true, but I sure would tell them how to become saved and let them know that it is possible.
2007-12-12 09:56:10 · answer #10 · answered by PJ 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋