False conversions come from using the Sinner's Prayers. The sinner's prayer was invented just a little over a hundred years ago and was never used by anyone in the Bible. Why didn't Jesus just lead the rich young ruler in a simple “sinner's prayer” and then tell him he had eternal life? Why didn't Jesus just tell the man to ask Jesus into his heart? Why did Jesus say that it was so hard for a rich man to be saved if all he had to do was pray the “sinner's prayer”? That is what the vast majority of today's ministers would have told the rich young man had to do, to just pray the “sinner's prayer,” and then they would tell him he was saved. Especially since the man obviously was a “good” moral person and he was also wealthy. He would have been welcomed into virtually any church in America today, and then shortly be given a position of leadership or teaching. www.christianmyths.org