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I have a question about prayer and hell.

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What if the only reason you pray "jesus come into my heart".Is because you just don't want to go to hell? :(
 
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Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. The rest will come later.
 
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jesus lover said:
What if the only reason you pray "jesus come into my heart".Is because you just don't want to go to hell? :(
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If you fear hell then as @Him stated, it's a start. Your prayer isn't what saves you anyway, it's the Savior who died on the cross for the forgiveness of you sins, and that stops you from going to hell.
 
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jesus lover said:
What if the only reason you pray "jesus come into my heart".Is because you just don't want to go to hell? :(
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That's actually a pretty good reason-- as said by others- as a motivating factor or starting point. It's akin to putting on your seatbelt when you get in a car, because you don't want to be ejected through the windshield if you get in a crash.

But asking for the spirit of God to come into your heart and live inside you isn't some kind of magic potion that you drink once to get eternal immunity from hell. I know some folks think and teach this, but again it's much more like that seatbelt that unclicks as easily as it clicks in, and we need constant filling and renewal and relationship with the spirit to be effective.
 
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For the non-believer, it's easy to doubt before making a commitment in wanting to know The LORD and what He says, mainly because of the doubt that the world creates in the mind of those without Christ. Especially if someone has already been emotionally burned by some previously joined mystical fraternity or religious cult.

It all boils down to who we listen to and trust; where we put our faith.

James 1:5-8
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, That giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
KJV
 
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