How To Get To Heaven When You Die

[Triple Peanut]

no offense, but surely there's got to be other message boards for post this...preachy. if praying helps you get out of bed in the morning or find a direction in life that's great, more power to you, but this post is really pushing a one sided adjenda.

[shrewsbury]

all kinds of posts push one sided agenda.

and i guess if prayer has to be done on your knees then i don't pray. but the last time i checked, God listens to me from any position i am in, but that's just me.

[ensbergcollector]

i will post more when i have time but triple peanut, pretty much everything in the politics and religion forum is one sided.

[Triple Peanut]

i understand...just kind of like, where do we go from here if there's not going to be a discussion. it's a bit more enjoyable to have a dialogue than just make statements. i'm open to hear both sides of things, of course this requires there being more than one side to the topic. i won't go further at risk of offending anyone. carry on :)

[Wickabee]

all kinds of posts push one sided agenda.

and i guess if prayer has to be done on your knees then i don't pray. but the last time i checked, God listens to me from any position i am in, but that's just me.

Amen.

[pspstatus]

I voted no because I can't support people or gods who support slavery, discrimination, and brutal acts of violence/vengeance.

[shrewsbury]

I voted no because I can't support people or gods who support slavery, discrimination, and brutal acts of violence/vengeance.

can't argue with the reasoning, but i don't think all religions or sects within a religion support any of those things.

[ensbergcollector]

as a christian, my question is about the significance and purpose of the "sinner's prayer." I can't find anything in scripture that says belief in jesus leads one to a certain prayer. Scripture tells me that belief in Jesus leads one to baptism. So, i feel confident in my salvation but i have never prayed the prayer listed in the opening post.

[shrewsbury]

Scripture tells me that belief in Jesus leads one to baptism.

i would be curious to here more about this, my opinion differs slightly, and i would, respectively, love to here more about yours

[ensbergcollector]

i would be curious to here more about this, my opinion differs slightly, and i would, respectively, love to here more about yours

cool, will do.

almost every instance we see in the book of acts has someone acknowledging belief and immediately being baptized (thousands in acts 2, philippian jailer, paul, ethiopian eunach, etc.)

1 Peter in making a comparison to the waters of the flood says "this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God."

The first half of Romans 6 discusses our baptism in terms of dying to christ and being born again through his resurrection.

Jesus' final command at the end of matthew is to go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit.


i have never heard any debate in defense of the sinners prayer that made sense to me. Or a debate the spoke against the need for baptism.

thanks man, would love to hear your opinion as well.