>> “I don’t know if I shall be saved.” <<
.
Sad that you should live in that kind of fear. I know that I’m saved; the Bible tells me so.
Did you know that fear is sinful?
>> “ I don’t subscribe to the Protestant nonsense of being ‘saved’ once.” <<
.
Is everything in the Bible “Protestant?”
By your theory then, if you sin even once after gaining the knowledge of Christ’s payment, you are then lost for eternity?
Hebrews 10:
[14] For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
[15] Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
[16] This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
[17] And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
[18] Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Read that last verse; if you are right about that “Protestant nonsense of being ‘saved’ once” there is no hope for you of salvation.
.
I live in the world as it is. No one is "saved" till his life is judged in its completeness, at death. I have reasonable hope that Christ Whose sacrifice is surely sufficient to save me will see me through, so I would not describe this as "fear", though.
Is everything in the Bible “Protestant?”
Quite a bit in Protestantism is actually Catholicism, and those parts are int he Bible allright. What makes Protestantism Protestant is indeed stuff not found in the Bible. Your idea that people are saved before they actually are is among those.
[17] And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
[18] Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin
(Heb 10)
Right, this is a good reason to discard the once-saved-always-saved nonsense and get to the penitentiary.