[RnMomof7]

OK. Just wanted to get that in black and white.

You already had it in black and white..it is written in the bible

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.

[Campion]

You need to read a bit closer. Romans 10:9 tells you about something that guarantees salvation. It tells you nothing about the reprobation of anyone. Put another way, it says that those who "confess Jesus Christ with their mouth and believe in their heart that God raised him from the dead" are saved. It doesn't tell you who else might be saved, and it says nothing about who might be damned. To pretend that it does is eisegesis: reading something into the text that isn't there.

Read Romans 2:6-11 for another angle.

And, by the way, it doesn't say "If you confess Jesus Christ with your lips and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, but are a Catholic, you're damned to hell." Although you have damned me, and my one billion co-religionists, to eternal hellfire already on this thread, I hope to see you in heaven. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.