[Elsie]

I knew that I was now saved from Hell. I knew that I was accepted, and no one or no thing could snatch me from His hand.

 

That seems a bit presumptous; 'til one reads:

 

1 John 5:13 niv
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

 

 

[Elsie]

Like Rome teaches it:

 

1 John 5:13b
I add to these written things, to you who trust in the sacrements of the One True Church, so that you may hope that at some time in the future;

after you've spent an indeterminent amount of time in purgatory, that you might receive Mary's blessing and thereby attain eternal life.