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1 | Alter Calls? | Rom 10:9 | EdB | 25300 | ||
Steve To you and to CDBJ and anyone else that is so offended by my rampant error through the us of the term “ask Jesus into your heart. I repent I’m truly sorry I ever used the term "ask Jesus into your heart". I was merely trying to show my approval with what CDBJ and Charis said and since then I have been entangled in an anatomy lesson, accused making trying to make a person to be the nastiest person on earth. Folks as I have said I have heard the term in the church world for over 50 years. Perhaps it is not the best theology in the world, perhaps it is not anatomically correct, the idea I was trying to convey was at salvation the Holy Spirit imparting Christ’s likeness dwells within you,. P.S. If you want to ask Jesus into your bowels that is fine with me :-). |
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2 | Alter Calls? | Rom 10:9 | Hank | 25319 | ||
Ed, in support: I find nothing particularly objectionable with the words "ask Jesus to come into your heart" for this reason: We who speak passable English recognize it for the idiom that it is. I think it not difficult to understand what is meant by it, which, according to my understanding, is simply one way of affirming that the unregenerate sinner is ready and willing to surrender his life and will to Jesus Christ. I think the anatomical fuss is much ado about nothing. I still remember hearing as a child the words from a song we used to sing in vacation Bible school: "Floods of joy fill my soul since Jesus came into heart."....... So painfully frequently on this forum we are called to task for not being "theologically correct" when what is actually being said is that our particular way of looking at an issue or of expresssing our understanding of it may not always run in perfect parallel to to someone else's way of saying essentially the same thing. The professional theologian may couch his thoughts in more technically accurate language, but I have never held the view that one has to be a theologian to be a Christian. With the way theology is going these days, I'd almost have to say that one can perhaps be a Christian IN SPITE OF being a theologian. I don't think what you posted is all that off base and rue the outcry over it that you have had to endure but in no wise deserve. I've seen more than I would like to see of austere, judgmental indictments being handed out in wholesale fashion, when what is clearly more desirable is to see a contrite and forgiving spirit being displayed in fuller measure on this forum. When any of us becomes a stickler for getting it right, down to the very letter, it seems to me we are walking in the shadow of the example set by the Pharisees who came under the condemnation of Jesus for keeping the letter of the law but not the spirit of it. Blessings and peace to you, my dear brother in the Lord Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Alter Calls? | Rom 10:9 | kalos | 25328 | ||
In this post, please note that I am not referring to any specific individual(s) when I speak of "people who pick and choose." Rather I am speaking of forumites in general who "pick and choose." Hank: I agree with you -- much ado about nothing. Here is another example of people who pick and choose to use Bible terminology in some instances and not in others. It concerns the popular phrase "accept Christ," one of many idioms synonymous with "ask Jesus to come into your heart" ************ REPOST: Original question: "Where did the custom of telling the lost that in order to be saved, one must "accept Christ" originate, when this term is not found in the scriptures in reference to true salvation by God's grace? " My Answer: "Clearly my search in the King James Version New Testament showed only ONE occurence of the word "accept" in the entire N.T. "Ac 24:3 (KJV) We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. "Bear in mind that much pop theology is derived from "Christian" music and Christmas cards. Where is it found in the Bible? Well, people don't like to be conufused with all that doctrinal "stuff." ************ So here again we have an example of people who, in one instance, insist we must not use one non-biblical term (ask Jesus to come into your heart), but imply that it's OK to perpetuate another non-bliblical term (accept Christ). Oh, well. It was Emerson who said: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." No hobgoblins here! :-) kalos |
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4 | Alter Calls? | Rom 10:9 | Hank | 25342 | ||
Kalos, Emerson displayed an uncommon amount of wisdom, insight, and common sense and his "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds" is a fine example of all three. And it was to this "foolish consistency" that I was trying to speak in my former post, which was an effort to point out that the sometimes blind and unbending dedication to the letter of doctrine at the expense of the spirit of it is the rub that generates unnecessary divisiveness and tension among believers. --Hank | ||||||