It may or may not.
If he’s asking for sacraments for fire insurance, then God knows his motivation, and likely it’s meaningless.
Of course.
What this amounts to is Catholics promoting the very easy believism that Protestants are accused of promoting.
There are some important distinctions. Catholics object to those Protestants who believe that since they are "saved," they can sin with impunity. I realize that this is a small percentage of Protestants, but they do exist.
The possibility of last-minute repentance is proven by the Good Thief.
But the decision to lead a life of sin, with the intention of repenting at the moment of death, is obviously a very risky gamble. It's possible to die without the opportunity to repent. But the more typical danger is that a person who is habituated to sin is unlikely to repent with true sorrow, at the moment of death, in which case he will be lost.
No different from Catholics who sin with impunity and figure they'll just be putting in a little extra time in purgatory.
So if you recognize that it is a small percentage, why do Catholics keep harping on it?
Especially when virtually every non-Catholic here says that if someone has that attitude, they are more likely than not, not a Christian.
Yes we can...But we however often don't want to...And when we do, we are remorseful...
By getting saved (by Jesus) our old nature has been put to death...But he don't stay there...He keeps on raising himself back up...
You have to be saved to understand how that works...
As I see it, one the reason Catholics don't get that is because they don't sin...Apparently...How can you go months, or even a year without confessing your sins??? I'll bet I confess more sins in a day than a Catholic does in a month, or a year...
The real deal is that you guys are not confessing your sins...Couldn't be...You are just not acknowledging any sins...Apparently no conviction from the Holy Spirit...
A Christian certainly can not impenitently continue in known sin (Heb. 10:25ff) or without chastisement, and while upholding that it is precisely faith that appropriates justification before God , Reformers taught the only kind of faith that is salvific is the kind that will effect obedience toward its Object. ".. it is just as impossible to separate faith and works as it is to separate heat and light from fire! (Luther's introduction to Romans).
Works vindicate a soul as being saved, as the faith that justifies the heart is one that confesses the the Lord he believes in. "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. " (Romans 10:10)