Accepting Jesus into your heart

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Can someone tell me the bible verses that fundamentalists used to come up with the saying ‘accept Jesus into your heart as Lord and Savior’. Since these words aren’t found in the bible anywhere in this way, what verses were used to come up with this terminology? Thanks!
 
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Can someone tell me the bible verses that fundamentalists used to come up with the saying ‘accept Jesus into your heart as Lord and Savior’. Since these words aren’t found in the bible anywhere in this way, what verses were used to come up with this terminology? Thanks!
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When I was a Protestant, it was popular to quote John 1:12:

“But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name.”

Now, this says nothing of accepting Jesus “into your heart as Lord and Savior,” although Catholics would have no trouble affirming such a statement. We accept Jesus—body, blood, soul, and divinity—each week (or day) in the Eucharist. The part about “into one’s heart as Lord and Savior” is essentially a modern creedal statement that has developed around a concept of the New Birth (“born again” - John 3:5) made popular especially during the last century or so (think Billy Graham). It is used to summarize the fundamentalist Protestant position on salvation.

God bless,
Donald
 
Perhaps they got ot from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 😉 :
299 Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: “You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.” The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the “image of the invisible God”, is destined for and addressed to **man, himself created in the “image of God” and called to a personal relationship with God. ** Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and his work. Because creation comes forth from God’s goodness, it shares in that goodness - “And God saw that it was good. . . very good”- for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him. On many occasions the Church has had to defend the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world.
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