It’s so sad that the OP went all stompyfoot off the thread last night instead of answering whether he believed in the plain words of St. Paul and Jesus.
I guess he was afraid of having assurance of salvation.
I suspect that there are Catholics out there who don’t want assurance of salvation because it means that all the works that they’re so proud of are just the filthy rags that the prophet Isaiah calls them.
There’s a lot of pride to swallow to admit that you’ve been wrong your whole life.