While you guys teach that someone who dies in an obvious state of unrepentant serious sin was "never really saved in the first place".
Serious sin? Yes, we all know the RCC teaches a sliding grade of sin, whereas the Bible teaches that "whatsoever is not of faith is sin." (Romans 14:23)
Do you imagine at our death we will know every sin we have ever committed and we will know for a fact we have repented for that sin?
Not hardly.
But thankfully, our repentance is not the cause of our salvation, but like all good things, evidence of our salvation.
At our death, the only thing that will save us is Christ's work on the cross, graciously imputed to us by God for His glory.
The RCC teaches that a man is free from sin after confession, but as he walks out the confessional booth and into the light, he sins again and thus is in need of absolution by the priest.
An endless, frightening revolving door of salvation/condemnation/salvation/condemnation...
No wonder so many RCs are fleeing the vagaries of the RCC for the certainty of Christ's atonement on the cross.
"Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36
Do you imagine that has relevance to Catholicism?
At our death, the only thing that will save us is Christ's work on the cross, graciously imputed to us by God for His glory.
Traditions of Men.
The RCC teaches that a man is free from sin after confession, but as he walks out the confessional booth and into the light, he sins again and thus is in need of absolution by the priest.
Another truth of Catholicism. Do you think we should obey tyrannical German monks and Sin boldly!?!
Yeah, they're just banging on the doors of your 70-year-old splinter group.
As opposed to the frightening revolving door of doIbelieveEnough/dontIbelieveEnough/doI/dontI/doI/dontI ...
Someday, for better or for worse, you will know the truth.
What about the poor saps who become convinced they are Cauvin's reprobates? Oh, wait, all Calvinists are elect, I forgot.
Hubby was so relieved when he was born again to realize that God’s grace would not leave him and that he could just ask for Him to forgive his sins and it was done. Burden lifted.