But we don't know if they are sincere or feeling peer pressure.
How correct you are.
Moreover, saying a sinner's prayer because you decided that
going to hell was not for you is NOT real repentance at all.
The entire notion of salvation by "
works" is heresy...
it is a heresy typically called "synergism".
It does not matter if that "
work" is saying a sinner's prayer...
or deciding to make an altar call... or receiving water baptism...
or deciding to repent of some sins... or deciding to "invite"
Jesus into your heart... of DECIDING (a mental "
work")
to "
believe"....
The Bible is clear that
NO MAN who is unregenrated will ever
"
seek God"
(no, not even one). All REAL repentance must be
the RESULT of regeneration and never the CAUSE. That is part
of Christian theology 101...
But, as the Bible foretold, MOST of those in the church will
follow the
BROAD WAY of synergism into eternal destruction
and FEW in the church will find the
narrow way of the True Gospel
of monergism. This is just the FULFILLMENT of prophecy.
Jim