Is there any other item which should be on the list of things that must be accomplished fro a Catholic to obtain Salvation? You Catholics claim to know your religion better than any Protestants on FR, so please, make this list complete so we readers don’t miss anything vital, essential, absolutely required, for salvation as a Catholic. Baptism has been placed on the list. Are there any other sacraments through the Catholic Church which are essential for Salvation? God has called Christians to share the Gospel with all the world. Well, here we are, asking Catholics to share the absolute essentials for Salvation. Please, only Catholics add to this list if you believe it is essential and have been taught that by the Catholic Church.
“Is there any other item which should be on the list of things that must be accomplished fro a Catholic to obtain Salvation?”
Ever try that with a Protestant? I have. First, they tell you all you need is faith in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Then when you press them they might admit that the sinner must be contrite and repent of his sins. Then when you press them a little more they might admit that a firm choice amendment of life is probably in there too. Then if you ask them if they must believe Jesus is divine, that Protestant might not know what to say because the obvious answer is yes, but many Protestants are not so sure about Jesus’ divinity or if that is necessarily a part of “Lord” for Jesus. Then if you ask the Protestant is someone can lose faith in Christ and be saved, he stammers and starts looking for a quick exit. Usually they evade the question by insisting that someone who was “really saved” would never lose faith or commit a serious sin. When you point out examples of people who have done such things the Protestant will insist those people must not have really been saved in the first place.
My answer for the same question is exactly what Mary said at Cana: “Do whatever He tells you.”
If that is not enough for you, then you have much to learn about God and yourself.
“You Catholics claim to know your religion better than any Protestants on FR, so please, make this list complete so we readers don’t miss anything vital, essential, absolutely required, for salvation as a Catholic.”
Do whatever He tells you. That’s the whole list.
To the list you refer and also in the interests of completeness: full assent to all dogmatic Church teachings is also required for salvation.
This doesn’t mean every Catholic must understand them completely, at the level of a scholar; no level of “understanding” is required really (although of course encouraged)
Nor does it mean that if one is innocently ignorant of one, one is guilty of rejecting it. It does not mean that.
It simply means once one is educated about a dogmatic teaching, one cannot disagree with it. To know a teaching is dogmatic, and understand the teaching is dogmatic (which means it’s required) and to reject it anyway is a mortal sin.
So I guess that falls in line with Petrosius’ requirement # 3. I just thought it deserved its own mention, again for completeness.
That was a fairly comprehensive list. Why am I reminded by your comments of the lawyers trying to trap the Messiah ?
According to your words, so let it be unto you ( לוּ יְהִי ). If you are sincere, may you find repentance from dead works and come to love the one holy catholic apostolic church. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak , they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified , and by thy words thou shalt be condemned .
Matthew, Catholic chapter twelve, Protestant verses thirty six to thirty seven,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James