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"Where does the Bible say that inspired men ever invited alien sinners to the altar to pray for salvation?"

Ask your preacher where the Bible says that "inspired men ever invited alien sinners to the altar to pray for salvation."

This practice is very general in the religious world today. Perhaps it is practiced in the church where you worship. If so, then I do not know of a better one to tell to ask your preacher for this information than you.

You are well acquainted with him; you have been in his audience many times; you have heard him preach over and over the things he believes. So just go to him in a friendly sort of way and tell him you want the book, chapter and verse where any inspired man ever told alien sinners to come to the altar for prayer that they might thus be saved. Surely he could not object to a thing like this. So don't hesitate to ask him.

I have read in the Bible of an alien sinner engaged in prayer when a heaven-sent man came to him to tell him what to do. A case of this kind is found in the twenty-second chapter of Acts.

Saul, who had been one of the worst enemies Christianity ever had, became convinced of the error of his way. He asked the Lord what he would have him to do. Jesus told him to go to Damascus and there he would be told what he must do. So he went to the city and waited for that information. Ananias, a certain disciple in that city, was sent to tell him what to do. When he came into the presence of Saul, the sinner, he found him engaged in prayer. But he did not tell him to pray on.

That is what many preachers today would have told him. But Ananias did not. He was telling Saul what God wanted him to do. So he stopped the prayer. He said: "And now why tarriest thou? arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." Acts 22:16. To "arise" of course, means "to get up." So Ananias told Saul to get up from his praying and to do something. He told him to be baptized and wash away his sins.

Hence, this couldn't be the passage your preacher could point you to, for the man of God there followed the very reverse of the course preachers generally follow. And, too, I remember reading in the second chapter of Acts about a great multitude of sinners being condemned by the preaching of the apostle Peter. In Acts 2:37 they asked him and the rest of the apostles: "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" I do know that it would have been a good time for inspired men to tell them to pray through to salvation, but according to my Bible, that is not what they said.
As it reads in my Bible, Peter answered after this fashion: "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." Acts 2:38.

So instead of these alien sinners being told to come to the altar of prayer, they were told to "repent and be baptized for the remission of sins."

Furthermore, Jesus said: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven." Matt. 7:21.

None of these statements resemble the religious practices of men who invite sinners to the altar to pray for salvation. So I was just wondering if your preacher knows where inspired men ever followed a course like that. I am, therefore, asking you to ask him for this information. Just ask him to give you the passage in the Bible that contains the practice. And then if it is not too much trouble, I would be glad for you to send the information to me.

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