{
  "id": "MTOM-0045",
  "title": "Decisionism: Equating a Prayer, Card, or Aisle-Walk With Conversion",
  "slug": "decisionism-equating-a-prayer-card-or-aisle-walk-with-conversion",
  "url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/modern-traditions-of-men/decisionism-equating-a-prayer-card-or-aisle-walk-with-conversion/",
  "category": "Salvation and Gospel",
  "severity": 4,
  "severity_label": "Level 4 - Soul-endangering deception",
  "danger_type": "false_assurance_by_response_mechanism",
  "status": "full_depth_wave3_draft",
  "summary": "Decisionism turns an external response into the practical proof of conversion. Scripture requires repentance, faith, new birth, and persevering fruit, not confidence resting on a method.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "John 3:3-8",
    "Matt 13:18-23",
    "Acts 8:13-24",
    "2 Cor 13:5",
    "Jas 2:14-26"
  ],
  "key_terms": "palingenesia [new birth, regeneration]; metanoia [repentance, a changed mind and direction]; pistis [faith, trusting allegiance]; dokimazo [test, examine]",
  "related_topics": [
    "easy-believism-without-repentance",
    "altar-call-assurance-without-discipleship",
    "once-saved-used-as-a-slogan-to-cancel-all-warning-passages",
    "grace-without-discipleship"
  ],
  "wave": "Wave 3 - Salvation and Holiness Distortions",
  "translation_tooltips": "NET Bible local hover tooltips generated from local site data",
  "generated": "2026-06-12T15:29:19.973401+00:00"
}