After 63 years as a Luke-Warm Christian, I learned that I must be Born Again if I wanted to have eternal life of peace, joy, and love in Heaven. Within a few days of discovering this essential truth, my wife and I decided to become Born Again Christians in Feb. 2017.
At first, we heard about the ABC Sinners Prayer as the fast, easy way to get saved. The "ABC" refers to "Admit, Believe, Confess" or "Admit, Believe, Call". There are many slight variations of this Christian Classic, but most are similar to the following:
Dear God: I realize that I'm a sinner and I can't save myself. I believe you sent your Son Jesus to die on the cross to take the penalty of my sins. I ask Jesus now to come into my life and save my soul, and guide and direct my life from this point on as my Lord. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
After recovering from 63 years of deception, we weren't ready to fall back into another deception. Therefore, as "Good Bereans", we consulted the Bible so as to test the ABC Sinner's Prayer, to make sure it ticked all the boxes, was comprehensive, and sufficiently met all mandatory requirements as described in the Bible so as to truly achieve Salvation.
We quickly determined that the ABC Sinner's Prayer was terrible, misleading, superficial, with many wrongful assumptions, and may not get us to 1st base, let alone failing to get us all the way around the bases to score the home run of Salvation.
Therefore, based on our Bible research, we crafted our own Salvation Prayer. We believe it is fully compliant to all the requirements specified in the Bible (both OT and NT). To help us remember (ie. answering "Where did you get that from?"), and prove our case about the poor quality of ABC Salvation Prayer, and the excellence our our Salvation Prayer, we have added 53 End Notes, linking this prayer's wording to the specific Bible verse(s) that add a mandatory condition or requirements, which include 100's of Bible verses; all so as to prove our work, rightly dividing the Word.
This Salvation Prayer is based upon God's 26 Commandments for Christians (see: https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2019/12/gods-26-commandments-for-christians.html ), which is based on the Bible.
We ask you to review our Salvation Prayer, and test it yourself. Is it 100% Biblical? Is it 100% comprehensive, containing all necessary and sufficient requirements, with no fluff or un-necessary parts?
We recognize there are lots of opinions out there. For example Air 1 reports:
"Most Americans believe in God, but they’re a little confused about who the divine is.
While 66% of U.S. adults say God is a perfect being and cannot make mistakes, half (51%) say God learns and adapts to different circumstances.
Almost 7 in 10 Americans (67%) say God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam. A similar percentage (71%) say there is one true God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Despite a majority of Americans affirming a Trinitarian God with three divine persons, most still aren’t sure about how that applies to Jesus or the Holy Spirit. Slightly more than half (55%) believe Jesus is the first and greatest created being. Another 53% say He was a great teacher but not God. Close to 3 in 5 (59%) believe the Holy Spirit is a force but not a personal being.
When thinking about these theological convictions, most Americans classify them as opinions not facts. For 60% of U.S. adults, religious belief is a matter of personal opinion; it’s not objective truth."
In case you still don't understand, the Bible clearly states that the Son of God is God, who has existed from infinity past, and will continue to exist until infinity future (ie. never born, never created, never dies, eternal). The Son of God was incarnated as Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man. Jesus, fully God and fully man, had a human side that had to learn and grow during His life on Earth. God is perfect, Jesus Christ is perfect (ie. never sinned), and will never sin. God is all knowing, including the future, and therefore, is never surprised by anything. God had a perfect plan before He created Heaven & Earth, and has no need to change His plan, or adapt to unexpected circumstances. God is a jealous God, and is angered by people worshipping &/or praying to false gods, idols, relics, Saints, etc.. Islam is a false religion that is in 100% conflict with Christianity, and worships a false god Allah. The Holy Spirit (ie. Holy Ghost) is God, and has personality (ie. aware of its surroundings, has thoughts, actions, emotions, plans, and can take independent actions to achieve their plans); and is therefore not just a force (eg. electricity, magnetism, gravity, etc.), as forces do not have personality. The Bible is inspired by God, written by many different men over thousands of years, God promised to protect it and keep it, and it is 100% truth without corruption, and is therefore objective truth and trustworthy.
Please go back and compare the previous paragraph to the USA survey results, comparing and contrasting until you fully understand.
Therefore, we recognize that ~99.5% of those who call themselves "Christian" are actually luke-warm Christians (like we were for 63 years), or pseudo-Christians, or nominal Christians (Christian in name only, non-practicing Christians), hypocrites, wolves in sheep's clothing, or cults that aren't true Christians.
Rather than expressing a mere opinion about our Salvation Prayer, please reference what the Bible says, not what you say, to suggest additions, deletions, corrections, or wording improvements.
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