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To: the_doc
Today's most popular evangelists represent conversion as being as easy as walking down an aisle and confessing Christ.

Actually, it is as easy as seeing Jesus for who He is and bending your knee. And even that is easy because He reveals Himself to you, and your knee will bow of its own accord if you will only allow it.

Shalom.

626 posted on 01/04/2002 9:56:20 AM PST by ArGee
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To: ArGee; RobRoy; CCWoody; Jerry_M; RnMomof7; Matchett-PI; OrthodoxPresbyterian
I am not disagreeing with everything you have said. I am just offering a clarifying word of caution as to the way responsible conversion is represented in the Bible.

Repentance is not fun for an Adamic sinner, but it is integral to saving faith. For some folks, it proves to be impossibly difficult. You need to understand that about non-Christians. I certainly do. As RobRoy has intimated in another post, self-destructive behavior really is self-destructive.

And I am not even talking about turning over a new leaf to do good works. I am talking about the Satanic depravity of the unregenerate sinner. He hates God. He hates the Truth. He just doesn't ordinarily admit this to himself--i.e., he won't repent.

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Let me also urge you to read my #696.

708 posted on 01/04/2002 11:38:34 AM PST by the_doc
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