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Catholics accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior, admit that they are sinners, and are clearly taught that without Jesus’ sacrifice no one obtains the grace to get to heaven.
For fellow Catholics: False Teaching Alert (2 Peter 2; 1-3): Here is the actual Church Doctrine without the anti-Catholic spin: Salvation is not a single event that takes place once in time, and then is assured ever after.

Really ?? here is what Paul tells us in Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

The word saved here is the greek word "sōzō" it is a passive verb..an action on you..not through your own efforts..

Eph. 2:8-9: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

The perfect tense in Greek corresponds to the perfect tense in English, and describes an action which is viewed as havingbeen completed in the past, once and for all, not needing to be repeated.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Eph&c=2&t=KJV#s=t_conc_1099008

The elect are those that HAVE been saved by Christ

Tit. 3:5-7: “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us [past tense], through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 Whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

John 5:24 “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”

Stonehouse.. heaven will be as full of sinners as hell..the difference is those in heaven have a Savior

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Really ?? here is what Paul tells us in Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

The word saved here is the greek word "sōzō" it is a passive verb..an action on you..not through your own efforts..

And to make it even better....the word sozo has an meaning of: deliver out of danger and into safety; used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin and into His provisions

[caww]

I do think catholics struggle with what exactly “Grace” is and meaning of.....I have not read any who understand what that means...therefore very easy to believe works must be so in catholicism’s teachings.

They also believe Jesus’s life, death and resurrection is not sufficient or completed, rather they are responsible for ‘securing’ their salvation.

These two are the heart of the Gospel Message , therefore they aren’t getting the truth and thus cannot know the truth to set them free nor to understand that freedom in Christ that we have s believers.