Baptism saves till your first sin. Then you need confession, and to break the cycle you need the Holy Eucharist. It is generally a good idea to learn a little bit about the subject you are opining about.
So in Catholicism, saved isn’t really saved. Baptism doesn’t REALLY saved you after all.
Baptism is just a temporary fix, until you jump through hoop number two, which the RCC is just happy to oblige to offer you.
Hoop number two is the eucharist. Once I eat the body of Christ, Jesus is in me and I’m good to go. Nothing to worry about any more.
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So in Catholicism, saved isn’t really saved. Baptism doesn’t REALLY saved you after all.
Baptism is just a temporary fix, until you jump through hoop number two, which the RCC is just happy to oblige to offer you.
Hoop number two is confession which enables you to go through hoop number three, eating Jesus. Once I eat Jesus, He is in me and I’m good to go. Nothing to worry about any more.
Why not just give the eucharist to kids as soon as they can chew and swallow then, before they reach an age of accountability? Catch ‘em BEFORE they sin. The sooner the better.
If all that were found in Scripture, it would help. But it isn't, now is it?
Maybe, if the Catholics would spend a little time in Scripture and ignore the fallacies of their church teachings, they could better understand God's FREE GIFT to us sinners.
To quote Charles Spurgean: ... Then there comes another discovery, namely, that consequently it is utterly impossible for us to hope that we ever can be just before God, on the footing of our own doing. We must give it up now, as an utterly lost case. The past is past: that can never be by us blotted out, and the present, inasmuch as we are weak through the flesh, is not much better than the past; and the future, notwithstanding all our fond hopes of improvement, will probably be none the better, and so salvation by the works of the law becomes to us a dreary impossibility.
And to quote Paul:
Romans 3: 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
So the Roman system in theory a person could be heaven bound, then hell bound, confess and be heaven bound several times a day.
Wouldnt it be easier if the Saints could notify us of our status daily? Now there is an idea for Phone App "iHeaven/iHell"
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Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”