But Teddy K Catholics were given strong assurance that such will make it to Heaven. Now you sound like one of those Reformers.
faith and good works should be so closely joined together that the essence of the entire Christian life consists in both.
Oh, afvet isn’t one of the Reformers. He was just quoting me from upthread in his attempt to argue that works earn salvation.
Still kinda sad.
"Should be" is theory, but that's not the way it usually works. Takes a whole life for current behavior (one's state) to catch up with guaranteed faithbased position (one's standing before God).
The RC problem is that they think one can "lose" the gift of salvation through lack of visible works. But that is an opinion fostered by the god of this world, who would have the newly-born Christ-follower get back under the burden of shame and guilt through lack in confidence in the burden-shifting work of Jesus.
The correctly catechized New Covenant believer is convinced that because of his trust in the Cross-experience transaction, The Judge Of All has pardoned, judicially declared him "NOT GUILTY" once and for all time, and imputed the righteousness of His Beloved Son to him, thus removing the sense of guilt and the power of Sin as an indwelling agent.
The RCs do not like that view of justification.