Still waiting for Nineveh to Repent

Jonah went to Nineveh preaching the word of the Lord.  "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."  The people of Ninevah repented of their ways immediately.

If only it was always that easy to convince people to change their ways!

While reading the writings of Martin Luther and the Lutheran book entitled "The Lutheran Difference" it struck me like a bolt of lightning that my salvation occurred soley because of God's divine will, not by any decision that I may have made.

My salvation was NOT due to my free will!

This is such an amazing discovery to me that I want to share it with other Baptists and evangelicals who grew up, like me, being taught this non-scriptural concept:  the concept that we go to God by our free will and make a decision to accept Him. 

It's not true!  Salvation is ALL God!

Baptists and evangelicals pride themselves in believing that only they teach and believe a salvation that does not involve works, but their "decision" is a work!

The idea that sinful man has a free will that allows him to make a decision for God is nowhere to be found in the Bible!  "Accept Christ", "Make a decision for Christ", is not in the Bible!

Since the literal interpretation of the Bible is the bedrock foundation of the belief system of Baptists and evangelicals, they will, of course, rush to eagerily agree with me when I present them with this astounding truth, right?

I wish!

I am currently in contact with the Southern Baptist Convention in the hope that the SBC will officially respond to my Lutheran blog/website.  I pray every day that these good people will see the truth as I have seen it and will return to the true doctrines of the Christian faith as rediscovered by Martin Luther.

I am still waiting for Nineveh to repent!