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To: Bodleian_Girl
Well, seeing as how your religion doesn’t allow you to know for sure that you are saved, even in spite of the Bible’s direct statement that Christians CAN and DO know they are saved, I guess that would preclude you from discussing the surety of salvation?

Scripture teaches that one’s final salvation depends on the state of the soul at death. As Jesus himself tells us, "He who endures to the end will be saved" (Matt. 24:13; cf. 25:31–46). One who dies in the state of friendship with God (the state of grace) will go to heaven. The one who dies in a state of enmity and rebellion against God (the state of mortal sin) will go to hell.

This is what the Catholic Church teaches. Do you disagree with this?

17 posted on 01/31/2010 3:13:29 PM PST by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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To: NYer
"This is what the Catholic Church teaches."

Your post exemplifies what is good and illustrates what is bad with so many of the Catholic related posts. I can fully understand and appreciate a discussion of Catholic dogma and another biblical perspective about why one might disagree with it, but it is getting hard to stomach non-Catholics and anti-Catholics misstating the Church's position and then getting insulting and argumentative when corrected and refuted.

23 posted on 01/31/2010 3:28:21 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: NYer
Scripture teaches that one’s final salvation depends on the state of the soul at death.

Have you been born again as Jesus said you must be, through faith in Him?

If you have been born again, which I realize your doctrine says you can't really know, the words of Jesus Christ not withstanding, you'd have to be of the belief that Jesus couldn't actually save you to the uttermost and that He has aborted you from the new birth.

45 posted on 01/31/2010 5:20:57 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: NYer
Scripture teaches that one’s final salvation depends on the state of the soul at death.

1 John 5:12
 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

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.

46 posted on 01/31/2010 5:23:23 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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