It just makes sense. A person can go to an altar call. Repeat the emotional words, get a copy of the New Testament or the complete Protestant Bible, and then because of his/her free will continue home and commit sin by yelling in anger at someone on the freeway, or treating his/her spouse rudely, or ignoring friends.....you name it.
To me it has always made sense that because of our free will we can choose good or evil....even after being “born again” with an altar call or a similar emotional experience.
Just my point of view.
In those cases, does one need the Catholic Church to save them, or can a non-Catholic just repent of those transgressions to Christ?
So, what about Pelosi, Biden, and all the other ‘Catholic’ abortionists out there, Salvation? Is there a ‘burning in hell’ especially designated for them? Does their sactioning murder via legislation and in their political dogma exempt them from eternal punishment?
To me it has always made sense that because of our free will we can choose good or evil....even after being “born again” with an altar call or a similar emotional experience.
Was Paul saved? Based on your line of thinking....NO!
If Paul isn't saved...then none of us ever will be.
Romans 7:14-24
14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.