What makes a person saved? (Christians please answer)?

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.

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

First of all, good job for questioning. It's better to have questions and ask them than to give false testimony. I never fully understood this either, and I may not be correct at all. But my guess is... 12) No, I don't believe so. I think she came from the city. There were others, they just were not God's people. 13) The city he went to. 14) No, Cain's wife wasn't his sister. 15) Such laws didn't exist back then. None did, evidently. The first sign of law is Leviticus, or God's Law, which is given through the ten commandments later in the time line. 16) Retardation in inbred children isn't mentioned in the Bible, so I would assume the same standards existed then. Don't worry, things start making more sense shortly after that part(: If you have more questions, email me? I'd be more than glad to help however I can. I'm one of the few people okay with questions. Good luck, and God bless you.

Answer 3

Here's what it takes to be a born again Christian:
1. Believe in Jesus Christ and
2. that he died for your sins. Your sins alone.
3. Accept him into your heart and turn away from sin.
4. Follow the way of the Lord.

Nobody can make you change and you have to be ready before you accept God. You can go through the motions but if you're not ready you're heart will never be free and you won't be saved.

Hope this helped and if you have any more questions feel free to contact me. God Bless.

Answer 4

Jesus said that we must be born again. We believe what Jesus did for us on the cross. We surrender our life to Him.

We are first born by water and our mother's womb.

Born again is by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives within us and teaches us all things about God. The Holy Spirit comforts, convicts and guides. The Holy Spirit removes sin in a daily process, but the good thing is - What the Holy Spirit begins in us, The Holy Spirit is more than able to finish.

Answer 5

St Paul says in scripture, that we are "being" saved, .
IE its a process. Choose life, resist evil. Grace in your soul, without which you will be cast into hell. Rev.
Grace in your soul means that you are in Gods favor and have fought temptations and decided to say no to them , day after day all your life so you can say with St Paul at the close of your life, "I have run the race" You can expect that if you obey God's commandemtents and all he taught that you will be saved, but you cannt do it alone you need Christ.

Answer 6

Act 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Act 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Answer 7

When I got baptized I felt like my sins had been washed away, and I felt like a very clean person. I did not want to do the same things or associate with the same people. You will see and feel the difference.

Answer 8

To be saved you need to love and except God For who he is.You need to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior. Christians sin too but we repent and ask God for forgiveness.To be saved you need to read the bible and follow the 10 commandments.

Answer 9

When a person truly accepts christ into their heart, and prays, and begs for forgiveness.

that is what makes Christians saved.

(oh, and when you first truly believe, its the best fealing in the world, trust me.)

Answer 10

If u accept Jesus Christ as ur savior. And if u promise him that ur gonna live ur life devoted to him, every hour ever minute every second of ur life devoted to him and only live for him. Ask God for forgiveness and repent and u will be saved.