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Can someone please show me where the Bible tells individuals to accept Jesus as their personal savior?
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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:9-10 KJV -
Prosperity Gospel 3:11 😉
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Romans 3:10, Romans 3:23 and 6:23. Romans 5:8, Romans 10:9, 10 and 13. Romans 5:1, 2 and Romans 8:1. This is what is commonly called Romans road, but I do acknowledge the fact this is not the whole picture.
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Nowhere….this idea is absurd in the bible
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Joh 1:12
Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God– -
1Jo 3:23
And this is His command: to believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
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John 3:16
We tend to overcomplicate things and debate the fine points of every Scriptural fact. Perhaps this is why John kept it so beautifully simple. -
Why? The natural man does not receive the things of the spirit. One must be regenerated in order to “receive Christ.”
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John 3.16., The Gospel is centred around the death of Jesus for our sins on the cross and the resurrection. These Bible verses tell of the salvation there is in accepting Christ as Lord and saviour.
If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved. For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with him. Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6-7)
Jesus is the one of whom the scripture says, ‘The stone that you the builders despised turned out to be the most important of all.’ Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us. (Acts 4:11-12)
It is through faith that all of you are God’s children in union with Christ Jesus. You were baptized into union with Christ, and now you are clothed, so to speak, with the life of Christ himself. (Galatians 3:26-27)
We were God’s enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God’s friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ’s life! But that is not all; we rejoice because of what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has now made us God’s friends. (Romans 5:10-11)
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Its in the book of Acts, …believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved…
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People are posting silly questions without reading Bible.
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It’s not. The Bible says to believe on Jesus to be saved. He who believes has eternal life. He who believes not is condemned already.
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From genesis to revelation
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Let me restate this “Accept Jesus as your Personal savior” not receive Him or believe in Him, here’s the point, the word Accept-means to approve of, God does not need us to approve of what he’s done for us. Accepting and Receiving are two different concepts. Now second point, we don’t pray to Jesus we aren’t called to have a personal relationship with Jesus, we are called to have a personal relationship with God the Father, we are brought into fellowship with Jesus through the Church as the Bride of Christ. Be very careful when you tell people to accept Jesus as their personal savior, that is not possible outside of being in the body. And be careful because we often take God the Father out of the pulpit from statements like these and focus on just Jesus. God the Father is what everything comes back down to. My big point is that words are important, be careful how you word things because they can easily become a false doctrine. Example: “pray the sinners prayer and you’re saved”
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Believe in your heart and declare by your mouth…
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Easy belisvism doctrine doesn’t exist offered by feel good churches
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You don’t think it is scriptural unless you really study the Bible.
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John 1..to all who received Him, who believed in His name, gave he the right to become children of God.
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Rom 10:9-10 KJV 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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The same place it says omnipotent
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Repent and believe the gospel.
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Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20 KJV
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WHEN APOSTLE PAUL WAS IN PRISON, THE JAIL KEEPER SAYS ” SIR, WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED?”
PAUL SAID:”BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND YOU WILL BE SAVED!” -
Ever since the New Testament era, Christians have found the need to coin new terms to simplify or explain various doctrines. We reference the Trinity and the protoevangelium, although neither term occurs in the Bible. While “accepting Christ” is not a phrase found in the Bible, it does have a biblical basis, just as Trinity does.
Jesus and His followers often called salvation and the subsequent indwelling of the Holy Spirit a “gift.” For instance, Jesus told the woman at the well, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10). Paul said, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
By definition, a gift is not forced—but it must be accepted. A gift can be refused. John the Baptist said of Jesus, “He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful” (John 3:32-33). The word accept here is a translation of the same Greek word translated “take” in Revelation 22:17: “Whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.” “Take,” “accept,” “receive”—this is what we are to do with the free gift of God. Salvation is offered, but we must accept the offer in order to receive the gift. Since we do this by exercising faith in Christ, the phrase “accept Christ” is simply shorthand for saying “place faith in Christ and receive His salvation.”
The goal of using terms like “accept Christ” is to communicate the truth more effectively to someone with limited biblical understanding. As long as a term is theologically correct and aids understanding, it need not be part of the biblical vocabulary. If, during evangelism, a certain term causes misunderstanding, then it’s good to jettison the confusing term and patiently explain the truth from Scripture. While the phrase “accept Christ” does not appear in the Bible, the concept of receiving a gift does, and the phrase seems to works well in most evangelistic contexts.
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The Bible doesn’t exactly say that. What it does say is, believe, confess, and the baptized.
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John 1:12 NIV Yet to all who did RECEIVE him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
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Like many things, if you only take parts and pieces you will never get the whole. The Bible wasn’t meant to be a book of one liners.
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Acts 16:31
[31]And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.If you Believe in Him as Personal Lord and Savioryou will be Save
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There’s so many!…. read the Bible for yourself
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No where in the bible does it say to accept him
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It doesn’t
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Coleman Langley where did you hear that?
Is it Revelation 3:20
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.”
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John 3:18 is pretty clear. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
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It’s no, Jesus said repent and believe.
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Accept Jesus into your heart and be saved.
I know I read that somewhere? I heard it a hundred times in church. -
John 3:16
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Just because that exact phrase is not in the bible doesn’t mean it can’t be true. We say many things that we all accept as true without a scripture and verse.
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Yes it starts in Genesis and ends at Revelation
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Actually it says that we must repent of our sins and be saved. Christ is THE savior, not just a personal savior.
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Yeshua the messiah is a universal spiritual force and works in all people should Yahweh seek that person. To restrict Yeshua’s spiritual omnipresence to only those who call out his name to be saved is not what his teachings are about. I have known a few people of different faiths, and their kindness and honesty is greater then some self professing bible believing Christians I know.
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Instead, repent and believe the Gospel!
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I have to agree with it starts with Genesis and ends with Revelation. The word of God, the Holy bible all comes down to being about Jesus. It points directly to him. And if you know this, then you KNOW you are to accept him as your personal savior. It is reiterated throughout the whole Bible.
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Ito as many as recieved him. To them gave he the power to be called the sons of God
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Nowhere. The gospel is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
…That if you believe Christ died for your sins, was buried, rose again fulfilling the scriptures, you will be saved..
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John 1:12 But as many as RECEIVED Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
John 13:20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”
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;
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Coleman Langley, Whats the alternative?
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Jn 1: 12–13, a person has to receive Jesus to be bornof God, [Born again].
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Acts 4:12
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