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I have asked Catholics to post a list of what they believe the Catholic Church teaches are the steps and requirements in order to be Saved, to obtain eternal life. In post #175 a gracious Catholic poster gave a list and I have pinged the other Catholics who have posted on threads like this to invite them to add anything they feel needs to be on the list. Any thing you would like to add?

In post #175 a gracious Catholic poster gave a list and I have pinged the other Catholics who have posted on threads like this to invite them to add anything they feel needs to be on the list. Any thing you would like to add?

YES, actually. I will here, prayerfully in the Spirit of Christ, recapitulate that list, with my "addition" indicated in boldface type:

1. Believe in Jesus Christ.

2. Be baptized.
3. Do not commit any mortal sins.
4. If after Baptism you commit a mortal sin seek God's forgiveness through the sacrament[s] of Holy Confession and Penance.

Then, put your full faith and trust in our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Word of the Beginning, and the Judge of the End: Logos Alpha to Omega.

Preeminently Christ is God made incarnate as an historical, bodily man, who is fully God and fully human simultaneously. This is an unfathomable mystery to the human mind. Not least because the god–man Jesus Christ willingly sacrifices Himself bodily, through the agony of crucifixion unto death, to redeem the sins of mankind; so that mankind, formerly subject to original sin forever through the Fall of Adam, may be joined again with their loving and merciful Father Who art in Heaven....