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Are Catholics saved
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Many people say that theres no doubt catholics are saved because they have faith. However I read an argument that there not saved because they believe they are saved by the works they do and not on the sacrifice of jesus. Are catholics saved?
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There is absolutely NO truth to that statement:
"there not saved because they believe they are saved by the works they do and not on the sacrifice of jesus"
Catholics (referring specifically to Roman Catholics) completely and entirely believe that they are saved by the sacrifice and atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ.
That is not the issue for "most" Christians of the Roman Catholic faith. The issue is that they (Like a lot of Christians of all religious backgrounds) believe that since they have been saved by the atonement, that they are to be completely free of sin and are to be of good works.
This, in my opinion, is enslavement to a false truth, which opens up a HUGE can of worms, from very many different Theological paths, which I will not go into at this point.
Having said all that, I think we (as Christians) must understand that mankind has and will continue to, struggle in their walk of faith. And although, the Roman Catholic Church has made some very disastrous decisions over the past two millennium (As have all denominations), they were and are, comprised of men and women, who love the LORD with all their heart and are doing the best they can, in a fallen world, to follow the example of Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Each of us, thirsting to know the LORD and to draw closer to HIM. And all of us, with our own experiences, interpretations of scripture and ideologies of how we can accomplish the fulfillment of that inner thirst.
We are just human and we are not God and we must always remember that and search for ways to lift one another up as members of the ONE body of Christ. Amen!
Peace in Christ
I think, if you truly want to know "factual" information about the Roman Catholic Church, you should go out and read what they publish, say and believe as there is a lot of "conspiracy" theories that are biased and one sided my friend.
http://www.catholic.org/clife/
Peace in Christ
PS: In case my advice was not clear and indicative enough. The Roman Catholic Church in no way, shape or form believes or endorses the belief that a person has to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church in order to be saved. They also do not believe that you can lose your salvation, if you leave the church. Well, not since the 14th century anyway.
thanks for the info. im still studying Catholisism
It is impossible to generalize and say Roman Catholics are saved the same as it is impossible to say all Southern Baptists are saved or all Methodists are saved.
While there may be some Roman Catholics that are saved, I do not believe someone who has been born again according to the living and abiding Word of God would remain in the Roman Catholic church after conversion.
The Roman Catholic Church does not teach scriptural Christianity and, in fact, blasphemes the name of Christ at every mass.
I know that is a pretty strong statement but allow me to explain it. The RC church believes that Priests are ordained as an "alter Christus," another Christ. Roman Catholic doctrine teaches that the Priest is sacramentally empowered to bring Jesus down from heaven and place Him on the alter so that this becomes the "eucharistic sacrifice."
In The Faith of Millions written by John O'Brien (a Roman Catholic priest) it says:
When the priest announces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of saints and angels, greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim.
Indeed it is greater even than the power of the Virgin Mary. While the Blessed Virgin was the human agency by which Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man—not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest’s command.
Of what sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest who is thus privileged to act as the ambassador and the vice-gerent of Christ on earth! He continues the essential ministry of Christ: he teaches the faithful with the authority of Christ, he pardons the penitent sinner with the power of Christ, he offers up again the same sacrifice of adoration and atonement which Christ offered on Calvary. No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of alter Christus. For the priest is and should be another Christ.
That, among many other Roman Catholic doctrine, is far from being Biblical. The Roman Catholic church does not hold the faith once delivered to the saints and is not a church of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.