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1 | How to "Call on the name of the Lord"? | Acts 2:21 | kalos | 1839 | ||
I'm not sure what your objection is to the prayer at the end of God's Simple Plan of Salvation. Is it not Scriptural? Is there some bad doctrine in it? You have to understand the prayer in GSPOS is merely an example, a model, of how to pray when you ask God for salvation. (If you don't like it, you don't have to use it. Its use is certainly not mandatory for salvation.) I'm not sure you need to see word for word examples of it in the Bible. Every word of the prayer is based upon sound Bible doctrine. It seems to me that you are taking something relatively simple and straightforward (calling on the name of the Lord) and trying to turn it into some deep theological mystery. Basically to call upon the name of the Lord is another way of saying to pray to the Lord. . . . There is nothing more to "calling on the name of the Lord" than praying and admitting one is a sinner; that one believes Jesus was his substitute when He died on the Cross. That His death burial and resurrection according to the Scriptures IS the essence of the Gospel (1 Cor 15:1-4). The prayer closes with the praying person receiving Christ as his Savior and thanking God for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of salvation and everlasting life. To question whether the prayer is Scriptural or to expect some long-drawn out mystery in answer to your question seems to be going beyond the Scripture and unnecessarily complicating that which is not complicated. |
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2 | How to "Call on the name of the Lord"? | Acts 2:21 | rancher | 1841 | ||
The example prayer IS a good prayer, but I just can't think of any place in scripture where anyone prayed to be born again or become a child fo God. The book of Acts is kind of the "book of conversions", in it we have lots of examples of people becoming Christians - am I missing an occasion where someone "called on the name of the Lord" by praying? I know if sounds like I am nit-picking, but after all, Jesus said "Not everyone who says to Me "Lord, Lord...." (MAT 7) I think it is importatnt that we call on the name of the Lord His way an not our own way. |
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