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Sigh... if you read Scripture, we aren’t just saved from sin. We’re saved for eternal life with God.

Phil 2:12 "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."

Salvation, in its fullness, is God’s new creation. To save us, He remakes us in His likeness — a lifelong process.

Because God loved us so much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from such a terrible fate. The life, death and resurrection of Jesus offer us, through the forgiveness of our sins, escape from eternal punishment.

But that’s not all. He also reconciles us to God, opening the door to a full restoration of our relationship with Him.

1 John 5

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

John says we can have “confidence,” 1 John 3:22 says, “. . . And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 1

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Let's repeat a basic Bible lesson:

What does Jesus say saves us?
- Matt. 24:13
  13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
  yes, Jesus said it is not faith ALONE. We are saved by God's GRACE. Full-stop.
  James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. -- it's never faith ALONE. Note that
  1. He who believes and is baptized will be saved. (Mk 16:16)
  2. [U]nless you repent you will all likewise perish. (Lk 13:3)<li> [H]e who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. (Jn 6:54)
  so, take it up with Jesus who says the above.
- Matt 25:31-46 34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
  35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
  36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Jesus says that if you endure to the end you get salvation, that if you helped your fellow man you inherit the kingdom of God (you get salvation) --> note these are HIS own words
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George would have grown in God's love and grace and as Jesus said was saved and endured to the end - far better than some Baptists who just call out Lord, Lord and are not saved

“Sigh... if you read Scripture, we aren’t just saved from sin. We’re saved for eternal life with God.”

Sigh... Yes. I learned that as a small child and we studied it in Seminary.

“Far better than some Baptists who just call out Lord, Lord and are not saved”

If course there are professing Christians in every denomination who aren’t saved, and God will say, “I never knew you.”

I wasn’t singling out Baptists as being the only ones saved. I only used that in the context of the denomination of my dad’s ministry. Unlike RCs, we don’t worship a denomination or connect salvation with a denomination.