Salvation
"Zur Seligkeit berufen, aber durch die Sünde verwundet, bedarf der Mensch des Heiles Gottes. Die göttliche Hilfe wird ihm in Christus durch das Gesetz, das ihn leitet, und in der Gnade, die ihn stärkt, zuteil. „Müht euch mit Furcht und Zittern um euer Heil! Denn Gott ist es, der in euch das Wollen und Vollbringen bewirkt, nach seinem Wohlgefallen" (Phil 2,12-13)."
How should I respond to someone who asks me if I've been saved, or born again?
Assurance of Salvation?
I have a friend who says that Baptism is a symbolic act and that it has nothing to do with salvation...how can I answer them?
How do I respond to someone who believes that only the "chosen" ones are saved? This person is a Calvinist. I realize there is the whole free will issue but I am curious as to the best way to respond to this person?
I was talking with an Evangelical co-worker and he said the Bible teaches that once we are "saved," we can never lose our salvation. Is that true?
I'm a Born-Again Christian and I was wondering why the Catholic Church doesn't do the altar call to have people accept the Lord Jesus as their Lord and Savior since it says that you must make this declaration to be Born Again?
How do I answer my father-in-law (a Methodist) when he says he read the Catechism and it says that only those belonging to "The Church" will achieve salvation.
Catholics say that faith and works are necessary for salvation and that one has to be baptized in order to be saved; yet, the Good Thief did no works and was not baptized, and still Jesus told him he would be in paradise. Doesn't this prove Catholic wrong?
Catholics say that faith and works are necessary for salvation and that one has to be baptized in order to be saved; yet, the Good Thief did no works and was not baptized, and still Jesus told him he would be in paradise. Doesn't this prove Catholic wrong?
Jesus said: "No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit" (John 3:3-5). I have seen a good number of non-Christians living a righteous life. Will they not enter the Kingdom of God?