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To: rexthecat
Catholics believe that if you make a perfect act of contrition before you die, you'll go to heaven.

It is basically the same thing that many Protestants believe, that if you accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, your sins will be forgiven and you will go to heaven (the difference being that many of these same Protestants believe that, after that point, once saved, always saved).

What we do know is that God desires all men to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4). If a person sincerely repents of any and all of his past sins, God in his mercy will save him.

2 posted on 07/13/2024 11:26:01 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: fidelis

It is only by God’s grace that we are saved. It’s a gift, unrelated to any good deeds we might perform.


24 posted on 07/13/2024 3:20:03 PM PDT by Wuli ( r)
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To: fidelis
Pleas define what you think "repentance" means to you.

I will appreciate your response.

28 posted on 07/13/2024 3:54:01 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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