Your comment: “I will certainly NOT acknowledge that. We saved people, are justified, right here on earth, before we die. If one waits till they die, to see if they are going to Heaven, it’s almost an iron clad Guarantee, that person will probably spend a bit of time in the lake that burns. 🔥 Why wound anyone, with two functioning brain cells, choose the lake that burns? Can you enlighten me? “
It is so easy for protestants to believe “Once saved,Always saved” as they are easily persuaded by the empty promises of Satan. This is not God’s Truth.
Baptism is our initial justification from the graces of God.
The New Testament repeatedly warns us against self-deception, particularly with regard to sin and it consequences. (1 Cor6:9-10, 15:33-34; James1:22; 1 John 1:8 and more)
Faith in God and His revealed Truth is required for Salvation.
No one who knowingly and deliberately rejects the truth will be saved. If anyone rejects the truth of Christ and his Church—even one definitive teaching—they will be lost.
We lose our justification when we commit mortal sin.
So true faith includes a free-will trust in religious authority—not just accidental agreement with that authority on other grounds. For Christians, that authority is God’s revelation through the Church, whose Sacred Tradition produced Sacred Scripture and guards its orthodox interpretation.
St Paul days on the last day God “will give eternal life” to believers (Rom 2:7