How come every time I get saved, I always go back to being bad, mean and, evil?

Question

I do what they say and say the pray but I am still bad and love doing my sinful things...

They say I didn't mean from the heart..

How the hell do you mean it from the heart?

Answer 1

Have you ever told a woman you loved her and didn't really mean it. Then you start cheating???
That's what you're doing to God.
You commit to him and then cheat on him by backsliding.
Being saved doesn't mean you'll be perfect, none of us are or can be at this point, so don't beat yourself up for sinful inclinations, it's not an overnight transformation.
Talk to God, tell him how you feel. Are you feeling regret over your past and apparent current sins? Tell Him. Ask for forgiveness and for help to overcome.

May God continue to bless and keep you.

(p.s. you get saved one time, after that you are simply renewing your committment to God, sort of like a renewal of wedding vows.)

Answer 2

That was looooong. LOL I hope you don't mind that I skimmed. The Bible makes it clear that once a person is saved they are always saved. When you believe, you are placed in God's hand and nobody, not even yourself, can pluck you from God's hand. When you are saved, God gives you the Holy Spirit, and He won't take Him away from you! There are no verses that uphold the position of those who believe you can lose your salvation. None. All the verses support the fact that salvation is eternal. The thing is that it's hard for us sometimes to know the difference. People who are truly saved can do some pretty stoopid things. Look at King David. He was a man after God's own heart, and yet he commited adultery and murdered a man. Look at the letters Paul wrote to the churches - they are full of rebuke for some of the awful things the believers were caught up in. These people seem to be saved, yet they were in gross sin. So sometimes we can't tell the difference - we can't always tell if a person was never saved to begin with, and they have wandered away because they weren't saved, or if they really are saved and they are just screwing up big time. The most important 2 things to remember are this: 1) once saved, always saved, even if you sin; 2) we are NOT saved by our works, but by faith.

Answer 3

Some would say that you were never saved in the first place.

Others would say that you're still saved, no matter how bad and mean and evil you get.

But I think you're living proof of the Catholic notion that an assurance of salvation while alive on this earth is impossible. Unless you know that you're in a state of grace right before you die, there's no way of really knowing until after you die.

We must continue in God's grace -- that's what St. Paul tells us in Romans. If we don't, Paul says, we too will be cut off. A one-time moment of "being saved" is no guarantee.

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Answer 4

You must receive Jesus in Holy Communion. Jesus himself told of a man who was cleansed of a demon and after a while the demon discovered that the place was all cleaned out but empty so he brought some other demons with him and moved right back in. Once the place is clean you need to install Jesus himself there to help fight temptation and the work of the Devil. This is why the Catholic Church is so great!. Notice that after people are raised from the dead in Scripture they always say "Now go give him something to eat" This is Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.

There is a reason that the Proverbs say a dog will return to it's vomit.

Answer 5

You go back because you're a sinner like everyone else, me included.

Any Christian church that tells you "once saved always saved" and that "if you are saved you will automatically do good works" they are selling you a bill of goods.

Those are Protestant heresies formulated in the 16th century. It is unbiblical to say that a man gets saved only once in his life and that's all he needs to enter Heaven. We are constantly "being saved."

Catholic teaching (biblical and apostolic) is that even after we are baptized, we still sin because we are still human. Our salvation is never assured in the sense that most Christians claim. St. Paul wrote "he who endures until the end will be saved."

God forgives us whenever we repent. And that's how it goes until we die. Fight the good fight and don't give up. That's what the grace of God is given to us for.

Answer 6

Maybe you are pursuing the wrong means of overcoming temptation. Sounds like it is a personal problem not a spiritual one. Human nature is not to be perfect, so if it is perfection you expect to get from religion then look somewhere else... Spirituality is a guide, free will is yours.

Answer 7

False conversion.Read God's Word and then make a decision one way or another.Too many people say:"Gee,what the heck...okay I believe...I'm saved....have a nice day".But they never find out what God has to say to them,and how they should spend their time as sojourners here on earth.

Answer 8

Could it be that, fundamentally, you are an evil sinful beast beyond any possible redemption?

Answer 9

Stand your ground against temptation.

Answer 10

Give your life to God through Jesus Christ. Totally! You can't do it by yourself. You need to have His direction.