for sure!
Time and time again I heard renewal priests say “You have to accept Jesus as your personal savior”. Come again?
I, a sacramentalized cradle Catholic, repeating the Creed on Sundays and praying the Rosary, haven’t I been “saved” thousands of times already? Why do they do that? Don’t they know we are already saved? Why do we have to follow some fundamentalist formula? Doesn’t this take the bang out of our Sacraments just a little? But they make you do it at the Life in the Spirit Seminars and at charismatic conferences. Just so nobody will be missed... ever. We wouldn't want our Protestant brethren think that some of us were not born again!
"Are you saved?" asks the Fundamentalist. The Catholic should reply: "As the Bible says, I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5ñ8), but Iím also being saved (1 Cor. 1:18, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9ñ10, 1 Cor. 3:12ñ15). Like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11ñ13)." Source
Are Catholics Saved?
Catholics believe they are saved. They have been baptized, as instructed in the Bible. They accept Jesus as their personal savior on a REGULAR BASIS, not just once.
Time and time again I heard renewal priests say “You have to accept Jesus as your personal savior”. Come again?
I, a sacramentalized cradle Catholic, repeating the Creed on Sundays and praying the Rosary, haven’t I been “saved” thousands of times already? Why do they do that? Don’t they know we are already saved? Why do we have to follow some fundamentalist formula? Doesn’t this take the bang out of our Sacraments just a little? But they make you do it at the Life in the Spirit Seminars and at charismatic conferences. Just so nobody will be missed... ever. We wouldn't want our Protestant brethren think that some of us were not born again!
"Are you saved?" asks the Fundamentalist. The Catholic should reply: "As the Bible says, I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5ñ8), but Iím also being saved (1 Cor. 1:18, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9ñ10, 1 Cor. 3:12ñ15). Like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11ñ13)." Source
Are Catholics Saved?
Catholics believe they are saved. They have been baptized, as instructed in the Bible. They accept Jesus as their personal savior on a REGULAR BASIS, not just once.
