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To: af_vet_1981

You continue to change the subject. I quoted OT and NT Holy Scriptures. That’s the sum of it. Yet you want to discuss the sinners prayer and the 4 spiritual laws. Show me where such is in the language of my posts?

Answer...not there. I can only assume you wish to be a contentious man.

If you desire to view a sinners prayer, the Holy Spirit provided us quite a few. The following my favorite:

Psalm 51King James Version (KJV)

51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

King James Version (KJV)
by Public Domain

Your comments on Ezekiel 36 are partially correct. They are for the house of Israel. Which Chirst opened for all nations as prophesied in the OT, confirmed by Christ in Luke 24, and fulfilled in Acts.


137 posted on 11/02/2015 12:10:29 PM PST by redleghunter (Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation)
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To: redleghunter
In my original post I stipulated the Evangelical model. If you are not Evangelical, or you contend the Sinner's Prayer and Four Spiritual Laws as a method of evangelism do not conform to Evangelicalism, just indicate so rather than deflecting by contending I changed the subject when I initially included that in my post 109:
While you may believe it, Ezekiel is not cited, nor does that scripture in Ezekiel match the Evangelical model alleged in John. One could see models for some Catholic views in Ezekiel (Baptism, Penance).

Which Christ opened for all nations as prophesied in the OT, confirmed by Christ in Luke 24, and fulfilled in Acts.

Your contention is partially correct, and yet there is no reference to Ezekiel in the New Testament, nor is there explicit language in Ezekiel to support your contention. However, there are, at least, some crumbs and kernels in Ezekiel with a promise for the goyim/Gentiles/heathen/nations, i.e., that they shall know He is the LORD when He is sanctified in Israel before the heathen's eyes. That, perhaps, fits well with Matthew, Catholic chapter twenty five. Howbeit, Jeremiah and Isaiah are more explicit of the hope of the nations to join His people Israel, but I find the sweetest promise in Zechariah.

I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. other sheep

Zechariah, Catholic chapter two, in its entirety,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James,
bold emphasis mine

138 posted on 11/02/2015 1:25:17 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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