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Reply to "Saw This On Facebook -- Supposed Top 10 Christian Cliches!"

Bill,  Regarding this cliche':

 

 "8. Ask Jesus Into Your Heart! "

 

You say:  

  

I have always believed it was the thought that counts.  So, however we say it -- THAT is the most important advise we can give to a non-believer!

 

Tell us, Bill, where does your Bible say anything about asking Jesus into one's heart? If that is the most important advise [sic] you can give a non-Christian, then you should be able to show that non-Christian where, in the Bible (and not in some compendium of trite evangelical buzz phrases), he or anyone else is told to ask Jesus into his heart.

 

There were many non-Christians present on the Day of Pentecost, A.D. 33 when the inspired apostle Peter was asked by some lost and aggrieved sinners, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"  If he had followed your "advise", he would have told them to "ask Jesus to come into your heart," but he did no such thing.  Instead he told them to "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for  the remission of sins...."

 

Yes, that business of asking Jesus to come into one's heart is indeed a cliche', and it is a cliche' of non-Biblical origins.  The Divine plan for salvation of lost sinners nowhere in scripture

levies that particular requirement, irrespective of how popular it might have become in the parlance of certain careless evangelicals who value the trite epigrams of their  truncated soteriology over  the plain teaching of the Word.


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