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Let me share with you my story of being "saved" by a Baptist preacher...
He was my old boss at a big local corporation, and he did pretty good keeping religion out of the work-place for the most part. At least he never let my agnosticism at the time prevent him from giving me big promotions and the like.
Anyway, he left his good-paying job to move down to Arizona to become a Baptist pastor down there. He invited me down to visit him one weekend, and I took him up on the offer (this was about 10 years ago now). Anyway, once I got down there I found that he didn't exactly have innocent intentions, so to speak. He immediately got me cornered with another visiting pastor and started proselytizing me, making heavy reference to the Gospel of John.
After several hours, I had enough of it, and I just gave in. I went through the motions with him and told him that I accepted Jesus as my Savior and repented of all my sins. Of course I didn't believe it, and after speaking to a Christian co-worker later, she told me that I really wasn't "saved" because I was just pretending... but the pastor believed it, and that's all that seemed to matter.
I didn't keep much in contact with him after that, he'd send me the occasional e-mail seeing if I had found a Bible (KJV of course) believing church to attend, to re-inforce my faith. But as far as he's concerned, "once saved, always saved." That no matter how much I retreat from the faith, so long as I made that initial commitment to Christ, the "damage had been done" so to speak.
Guess I just better hope that Islam isn't true or that whatever God in whatever after-life isn't displeased with me (faking) becoming a Christian. After all, almost every religion's version of God is a jealous God and likes no imposters.
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