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NASB | Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:9 because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. |
Subject: Alter Calls? |
Bible Note: 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 |