Christians and Catholics, Catholocism, How do you know if your saved?

Question

Do you guys run around not knowing if your saved or not? An honest and sincere question.

let me clarify, this question if for anybody, but specifically about Catholocism. How do you (catholics) know that your saved? Or how do they know (noncatholic christians) that they're saved?

Answer 1

Many Catholics just don’t know what to say when someone asks them whether they are saved. However, there’s really no reason to be confused, because the Catholic understanding of salvation in Christ gives the perfect answer, and Katrina Zeno is here to explain it.

As Catholics, we’re vaguely familiar with "saved" language. We don’t usually ask someone, "Are you saved?" and when someone asks us this question, we often stutter and fumble for an answer. So how should we answer: "Are you saved?" Constantly. We are constantly being saved by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Why? Because salvation is dynamic, ongoing. It’s a past, present, and future reality. Let me explain.

Salvation is a past reality: We have been saved by the death of Jesus Christ. While we were still sinners, Jesus’ death canceled the bond that stood against us (Col. 2:14). In other words, the guilt of original sin has been wiped away. God pardoned our sins. But being pardoned isn’t the same as being holy. Being pardoned gives us back our freedom to choose the road to holiness, to walk the narrow path. Right now, today, we are being saved. Grace is wooing us down the narrow path. We are becoming holy. Salvation is an ongoing event.

We can easily verify salvation as an ongoing event—just look at the world around us. If salvation was a past event, then Mother Theresa and Pope John Paul II would be a dime a dozen. Instead, they shine like stars in the darkness. The world is a cultural and spiritual battleground—a collision between the culture of life and the culture of death. This, however, is nothing new. St. Paul described man’s predicament in these terms: "What happens is that I do, not the good I will to do, but the evil I do not intend. But if I do what is against my will, it is not I who do it, but sin which dwells in me" (Rom 7:19-20).

Whether you’re St. Paul, Pope John Paul II, or living in St. Paul, the reality is the same: We are being saved because grace has not yet fully transformed every area of our mind, emotions, desires, and will into the mind, emotions, desires, and will of Christ.

And when this transformation takes place, what will we be? The body of Christ. We will be one with Christ. Too often we think of salvation in terms of what we’re saved from. It’s absolutely critical to be saved from hell, damnation, and the stain of original sin, but what are we saved for? This is the ultimate question and the reason why salvation is a present and future reality. We are saved for union with Christ. Or, to put it in more poetic terms, we are saved so that the two may become one.

Wow, what a completely different view of salvation! Salvation is not only a legal event where the guilty prisoner is set free (hallelujah!), but a nuptial event—the two becoming one. God and man becoming one.

God and I becoming one.

If this is true—if salvation means the two becoming one—then our view of what "saves" us needs to back up. Scripture is quite clear that we are saved by the cross of Christ, but what makes the cross possible? It is the Incarnation, God and man becoming one in the person of Jesus Christ. The Incarnation is the supreme nuptial event of salvation history and, therefore, it reveals what we are saved for—the two becoming one.

This nuptial re-union of each person and God is only one dimension of salvation. The two becoming one also extends to the body and the spirit, to each person and his neighbor, to nation and nation. Salvation is a multi-layered affair because sin was a multi-layered affair. Original sin not only ruptured man’s relationship with God (being cast out of the Garden), but it also ruptured Adam and Eve’s relationship with each other and creation, and their inner harmony of body and spirit (i.e., St. Paul’s lament).

Nuptial salvation, then, cannot simply mean being saved from God’s wrath or punishment. Nuptial salvation is the freedom to become successively and ever more profoundly one with the Trinity. It is the re-marriage of body and soul in love and harmony. It is the wedding of social and economic systems with Christ so as to restore human dignity and create "one new man from us who had been two" (Eph 2:15).

Finally, salvation is a future event. After the veil of this life is ripped in two, we shall be fully liberated to become one, but not all at once. In God’s mysterious and progressive plan, our nuptial salvation is completed only with the resurrection of the body. It is then that body and soul will return to perfect unity, and in this perfect unity, we will enter into perfect unity with the Trinity. The two will truly and definitively become one—body and soul, God and man, man and neighbor.

Then, when we confront that old question: "Are you saved?" we can answer "Finally!"

Answer 2

Nothing towards you individually, possibly you relatively do suppose the affection of God, how might I realize? I quite simply have under no circumstances met a Catholic that knew whatever approximately the bible itself. If they might simply peek within for a moment, they would begin pondering in which the heck praying to Mary got here from, confessing sin's to a preist, calling a person father (naturally denoted), Christmas, Easter, Lent, praying to saints, procuring sins, hail mary's, moon cookies (the sacrament?), Latin, prophetic desires are evil (my cousin attempted to inform me this after catechism sooner or later. I was once so burdened. What approximately historic testomony Joseph? Mary herself?) oh and the bomb dropper of concerned with me was once that no longer simplest did Mary have Jesus in a virgin delivery (real) her possess mom gave delivery to her as a virgin too (in which on the planet did they arise with that craziness!), Peter being the primary pope whilst he under no circumstances even went to Rome as soon as, and so forth. and so forth. Most of those matters are surely absorbed from pagans that obtained modified on a few form of compromise long ago in historical past. It caught with the Catholic church by way of culture, however why does not anybody query the way it suits into the desire of God? With all thy getting, get information, you understand what I imply? In Revelation, the 7th age will get spit out seeing that they're lukewarm. Neither scorching nor bloodless. Somewhere in among paganism and christianity isn't the location to be. (Not directed at asker) By the best way, Christianity such a lot definately didn't "want" Catholocism to maintain it round by way of the a while. They modified all of it to Latin and would not permit the general public even realize what the bible mentioned for countless numbers of years! You are not able to potentially feel that nonsense. There were real Christians round seeing that Jesus frolicked with them. Maybe no longer very many for the period of special intervals of time, might be no longer very many now! Straight and slim is the gate and few there be that discover it. Think approximately it.

Answer 3

Actually, I run around knowing that I am Saved! And I pray for the Salvation of others as well. It is not enough just to believe in God. We need to believe in his son Jesus (who is God in the flesh).It is true we are saved by "God's Grace". Out of that "Grace" he sent us his son Jesus. In our heart we must except Him as the "Son of God" and our personal "Lord and Savior." He is the bridge to God. By confessing you are a Sinner and inviting Jesus into your heart you are Saved. That is to say you are born again, made new and cleansed by the "Blood of Jesus." This doesn't mean a person isn't a Sinner anymore or suddenly perfect. This means now you are forgiven for your sin's because Jesus died on the cross for all sin! Thank You Jesus! So please don't expect Christians to be perfect or have all the answers because we dont. Most of us " New Christians" are still growing and learning. And may even back slide sometimes.Christianity is not a religion it is a personal relationship with God and his Son through the Holy Spirit. We believe that the "Holy Bible" is God's direct words and teachings sent to us from his messengers. And through "His Son" and the "Holy Spirit" and "His Word" we know and grow closer to God with each passing day. We believe God is our Creator, Alpha and Omega! The Beginning and The End! And we believe that someday Jesus will return for all those who Believe and Trust in Him. Just as He has promised! Isn't it Awesome! Well, Peace Out! From: "Jesus Lover!" "To Know Him and Make Him Known!" And remember in all your "Getting" get "Understanding!"

Answer 4

How about St. Paul. He did not know he was saved. He said "I work out my salvation daily with fear and trembling" He knew that his sinful nature was always trying to get him in trouble and he had to watch it every single day. Catholics do not doubt the saving power of Jesus and we trust in him but, it is our own sinful self that we worry about. We do not count Pride as an asset. The man standing in the Temple saying"Lord I sure do thank you that I'm not like those other sinners" and the man who was on his knees beating his breast saying "forgive me Lord for I am a sinner". Which one did Jesus say was the righteous one? The one who constantly asked for forgiveness because he knew he was a sinner. That is the difference. Catholics know they are sinners and we hope in Jesus.

Answer 5

As I devout Catholic, I know that I have been saved -- by the waters of baptism and the Blood of the Lamb and I know that I am being saved for Paul tells us in one of his letters to "work out your salvation in fear and trembling". Even Jesus stated that those who hold out until the end will be saved and so I, too, shall be saved....hopefully!

Thus I have been saved, I am being saved and I hope to remain faithful so as to be saved in the end!

Answer 6

Yes I know I am saved. I know this because at one time I thought I was saved and was not sure if I was or not. But now I am 100% sure. Because I accept my salvation through Christ. I am renewed each day with the Lord.

Answer 7

John I 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Answer 8

Catholics are 'saved'. However Catholics do not use the same wording. We call it 'grace'. And we are given grace through our baptism, through reception of the Eucharist and keeping the sacrament of Confession to assist us in the 'state of grace'.

Answer 9

It is only human arrogance to "know" you are saved. Jesus Christ said, "Many shall say, 'Lord, Lord' but shall not enter the kingdom of heaven... (Matt 7:21-23)

Answer 10

+ The easy answer is that we are "saved" because we:
- Are baptized and spiritually born again
- Follow the teachings of Jesus Christ
- Do not commit mortal sin

+ The complicated answer:

We are already saved:
- “For in hope we were saved.” (Romans 8:24)
- “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:5-8)

We are being saved:
- “He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus.” (1 Corinthians 1:8)
- “For we are the aroma of Christ for God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.” (2 Corinthians 2:15)
- “So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” (Philippians 2:12)

We have the hope that we will be saved:
- “How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath. Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:9-10)
- “If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire (itself) will test the quality of each one's work. If the work stands that someone built upon the foundation, that person will receive a wage. But if someone's work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:12-15)

Like the Apostle Paul, we are working out our salvation in “fear and trembling,” (Philippians 2:12) and with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ:
- “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access (by faith) to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.” (Romans 5:2)
- “This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:11–13)

With love in Christ.