Helen nima the sinners prayer

The sinner's prayer, as we know it today, was invented by twentieth century preachers as a quick and easy way to save people.

Sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.

Amen!

Forgive us, O Sovereign King, our sins against you.

Host.

Pray for the perseverance of the just and for theconversion of sinners, of heretics, schismatics, Jews, and unbelievers.

Unfortunately, it is a false doctrine.

Second Century
Around the second century, Gnostics taught that baptism was not essential to salvation. Christians, on the other hand, vehemently refuted the Gnostic doctrine and taught that baptism was absolutely necessary to be saved.

16th - 17th Centuries
Later, during the Reformation (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), Protestant Theology, in opposition to Catholicism, led to the invention of Protestant denominations.

Reformation theologians opposed some Catholic doctrines of salvation (e.g., indulgences) while embracing others (e.g., infant baptism). Trying to "reform" the Catholic church, Reformation theologians formulated their own doctrines of salvation from which denominations were crea