That’s why Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We don’t pretend to be saved. We know we are sinners.
So you are a Repentant sinner? Or just every few days, or so? Where is the Faith, in an unending, supposed retrieval from sin, by the Sacrament of Reconciliation? “Go forth and sin no more...”, right? Why would true faith in God, be so staggeringly unstable?
No one’s pretending to be saved, I know that I AM “by Grace, through faith..”
Sacrament or not, that’s just a symbol of the real thing. And may I add if you’re personally using it not as a reminder of Christ’s sacrifice by faith and instead as your personal act of taking this as “doing good” (or whatever you’d call it) then that would be a work and wouldn’t be faith.
-JS