Baptist Sinners Prayer?

[On_my_way]

ahimsaman72:

Is the Rosary in the Bible? Is the Trinity explicit in the Bible? Are the evils of abortion explicit in the Bible?

Peace…

That’s what I was trying to get at. The Catholic Church is based on 2 things Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. The sinners prayer is not in the Bible but Baptist say it. It must be Tradition then right. Most if not all religion have traditions and it is used by many. But why is it that other religious groups want to bash the Catholic Church for its traditions when other groups have traditions themselves.

And by the way “thou shalt not kill” is in the Bible and life begins at conception not birth.

 

[ahimsaman72]

On my way:

That’s what I was trying to get at. The Catholic Church is based on 2 things Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. The sinners prayer is not in the Bible but Baptist say it. It must be Tradition then right. Most if not all religion have traditions and it is used by many. But why is it that other religious groups want to bash the Catholic Church for its traditions when other groups have traditions themselves.

And by the way “thou shalt not kill” is in the Bible and life begins at conception not birth.

If you would have read my post well, you would have come to the conclusion that I did not support abortion whatsoever, hence the phrase used “the evils of abortion”. I am opposed to it.

Your point specifically was that it was not in the Bible and that’s why I answered my post that way. The elements of that prayer are found in the Bible and they are also a traditional part of protestant theology.

It’s unfortunate that you took my post in a bad light.

Peace…

 

[On_my_way]

a-72. If I mis-understood your post it is because you used question marks which would make me guess that you were questioning me about Catholic Churches tradition of the Rosary, Trinity and the teachings of abortion.

Again I thought protestants are really against Tradition since it goes against what they teach, sola scriptura. That is what I meant about being hypocritical and you just validated my statement.

 

[ahimsaman72]

On my way:

a-72. If I mis-understood your post it is because you used question marks which would make me guess that you were questioning me about Catholic Churches tradition of the Rosary, Trinity and the teachings of abortion.

Again I thought protestants are really against Tradition since it goes against what they teach, sola scriptura. That is what I meant about being hypocritical and you just validated my statement.

I was asking the same kinds of questions to you that you had asked of protestants.

I am not questioning Catholic beliefs. I’ve seen them enough and studied enough to know the Church’s stance on those issues. What do I care? I’m Buddhist!

Protestants are against Tradition, not tradition. Each protestant body has their own traditions and beliefs. They just don’t hold those traditions as binding, unlike the Catholic Church.

Peace to you…

 

[Fisher]

JMJ

I found a sinners prayer online at a Baptist site. I have heard Baptists recite a sinners prayer in service years ago. Is the prayer the same in all churches or made up at each one? Where in the Bible does it come from? Would this be considered vain repetition?

Here is what I found online:

"PRAY THIS SINNERS PRAYER AND YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER
**
Dear Jesus
Come into my soul
Take away all my sins

Wash me in your blood
Write my name in your book of life
Give me the Holy Spirit
In Jesus name.
Amen"**

Comments please. I would really like to hear from our Baptist brothers and sisters. It is a beutifull prayer, even if a ‘prayer in a can.’

A prisoner of Christ,

Luke 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

9 And he spake this parable unto certain which** trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: **

10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, **God be merciful to me a sinner. **
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

God sees the heart Jesus saves not a prayer. pride one of the most deadlylest sins

 

[allischalmers]

I do not think that I have ever been in a Baptist Church where they taught that you would be saved by saying the sinners prayer. On the other hand I know that some Baptist Pastors have taught if you desire to be saved then pray that God would saved you and he will and when he does he will let you know it.
No altar call, no saying the sinners prayer.
It works, at least it did for me

 

[DMW1980]

My personal experience with the Sinners Prayer:

I was raised in a Missionary Baptist church that put heavy emphasis on the Sinners Prayer. As I was taught, you say the prayer and you are literally guaranteed salvation, no matter what you do from that point. At age 18 I met a girl at my local community college. She attended a non-denominational church that preached very strongly against the Sinners Prayer. With what I saw in my own church and our conference, the non-denominational church seemed to be right. The sinners prayer was used/abused and became nothing more than a license to sin. Furthermore, the preachers that solicited unbelievers to come and recite the sinners prayer after the sermon said nothing about true repentance, or about the Lord expecting His people to live holy. The Sinners Prayer was literally treated as a magic formula that made all sins okay. It was one of the things that led me away from Baptist doctrine.

 

[Bix]

JMJ

I found a sinners prayer online at a Baptist site. I have heard Baptists recite a sinners prayer in service years ago. Is the prayer the same in all churches or made up at each one? Where in the Bible does it come from? Would this be considered vain repetition?

Here is what I found online:

"PRAY THIS SINNERS PRAYER AND YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER
**
Dear Jesus
Come into my soul
Take away all my sins
Wash me in your blood
Write my name in your book of life
Give me the Holy Spirit
In Jesus name.
Amen"**

Comments please. I would really like to hear from our Baptist brothers and sisters. It is a beutifull prayer, even if a ‘prayer in a can.’

A prisoner of Christ,

I was raised in a Baptist church, joined a different Baptist church in my teens and returned and taught as an adult in the same church I grew up in as a child. I never heard this prayer… Clearly they ( the churches) vary in many ways. ( one of the reasons I was more drawn to Catholicism )