With all due respect and out of love for your soul... you are obviously ignoring much of what the Bible says... I encourage you for your own souls sake to read again what is written above with particular attention to the Scriptures quoted.
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But "praying to receive Christ" also includes confessing your sins to God. All you are essentially doing is acknowledging to God that you believe that He sent His Son to die on the cross to save you from your sins and also ask forgiveness for your sinful ways. You also thank Him for this wonderful gift of eternal life. What's so bad about simply praying that? You can even do it silently. Since God can read our thoughts, isn't that essentially what you are doing anyway? I just don't see why Satan would like that type of teaching. Someone could repent from their sinful ways and possibly even be baptized without ever acknowledging the Lord's gift of Salvation through Jesus.
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You are offering not one word of Scriptural support for what you are writing.
Please show me the Scripture that commands an unsaved sinner to pray to receive Christ.
Please show me the Scripture that commands an unsaved sinner to confess sins to God.
Please show me the Scripture that commands an unsaved sinner to pray for forgiveness of sins.
To clarify... when someone obeys God and does the following, they are "acknowledging the Lord's gift of Salvation through Jesus."
1. Hear the word of God...
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
2. Believe and have faith...
John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Hebrew 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
3. Repent of their sinful ways and turn to God...
Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
4. Confess Jesus is Lord, the Son of God...
Matthew 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
5. Be baptized into Christ...
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
6. Remains faithful unto death...
Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Now... there is no doubt that once a person has obeyed what is taught in the Bible to be saved that surely they will also want to begin communicating with God through prayer. I would suggest that they would indeed pray a prayer to God and thank Him for loving us enough to give His only Son so that we can accept the gift of eternal life.