Featured Billy Graham on How to Become a Christian

I agree that God does not need anyone's permission to do anything, but this is not my point. If, as the Bible says that a person has to be born again in a certain way, then you can be very sure that God will do exactly what He says in His Word. It has nothing to do with systematic theology, but God Who says on things in His Word, and that He cannot break His own Word.

 

you make a very serious charge here. Can you give clear examples where Graham's messages have been so off from the Bible, that they are heretical enough to cause those who heard them, be lost forever. It is not enough to make these bold statements, you must if you are a true believer in the Lord Jesus, back up what you charge others with.

 

If you were to read what Bush says, "some of us are born Christians. It sounds as if your mom was just born a Christian.'". There are countless people here in the UK, and doubtless around the world, who are born into homes that are "christian", who go to church a couple of times a week, and give head assent to some of what the Bible says. If asked, they would claim to be "christians", but the reality is that they are not.

Jesus Himself says that a person needs to be "born-from-above", or rightly in John 3, "born-again", as the context demands it be rendered. the Bible also places emphasis on "repentance and faith" preceding "forgiveness", and "rebirth"

 

so you don't need to hear about the Saviour of sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved? Is this anywhere in the Bible? Nor does the sinner need to "repent and believe" to be "forgiven and saved"?

 

so you say that a sinner need not come to Christ to be born-again? then how does it work? Christ Himself says, "come unto Me..." (Matthew 11:28-29); The the OT Yahweh says, "Come, let us reason together..." (Isaiah 1:18); We read in Revelation 22, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely" (22:17), etc, etc...

 

John 16:8 says that the Holy Spirit is "convicting" the world of sin...because the lost sinners do not believe in Jesus as their personal Saviour. This is the first "step" in the sinners road to their salvation. Acts 7:51 tells us that this "convicting" can be "resisted", which is an act of "free will" in the sinner.

 

so, if a sinner does not hear about Jesus and the need for forgiveness and salvation in this life, they will somehow still be saved? So, you believe in post-death salvation? any Scriptures?