Are you saved?

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MaggieOH:
Yes, I am saved by virtue of my Baptism, I am being saved and I hope to be saved.

If you are Catholic and mention Baptism, be ready for the next response: Baptism in Greek is Baptizo which means immerse (not in my opinion :)) and that you cannot be baptized if you are not fully immersed.

They get stumped on the issue of the grace of the Holy Spirit being given as a gift of God at Baptism :D.

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And how do the Greeks Baptise? Perhaps our Byzantine friends can help answer this.
 
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Ignatius:
And how do the Greeks Baptise? Perhaps our Byzantine friends can help answer this.
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The Russian Orthodox immerse the babies :D. I have been to a Baptism at a Russian Orthodox Church.

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Ignatius:
And how do the Greeks Baptise? Perhaps our Byzantine friends can help answer this.
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For the Byzantine Catholic Church, the usual administration of Baptism is through the rite of triple immersion. For the ill or weak or adult, then Baptism may be administered by pouring only.
 
I always say Jesus Christ is my personal Lord and saviour, and he dwells in my heart.

I have had success if faltering absurd total security by asking my own question to the “are you saved” asker.

Do you feel that you are worthy of God…that every thought and word that passes your conscious is pleasing to God? No? Me either, and so I pray and wait for the Lord’s return so that I might be saved.

Deep down everyone has doubt, even the born agains…if they examine their conscious, have doubt that they are worthy of God. I just explain that I as a Catholic act on that doubt, instead of pushing it aside, I use it to become a better christian.
 
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cestusdei:
Most of us have been asked a varient of this question. Have you been saved? Are you born again? Do you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior? So what is your response?
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There is a certain hungry, half-crazed look I adopt for occasions such as these. It stops them dead in their tracks.:rotfl:
 
Gerry Hunter:
I’ve always admired Karl K’s answer to that one:

I am a Catholic Christian, and I have been redeemed. Like the Apostle Paul, I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling, with hopeful confidence, but without false assurances. And I do this as the Church has taught, unchanged, since the time of Christ.

Blessings,

Gerry
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I like Karl’s answer too. But I also like the challenge back to the OSAS person: “Are you taking up your cross daily and following Christ.” Maybe I’ll graft that on to the end of Karl’s answer next time and report back to the CA forums on how it is received?

Peace and Charity,
 
I have been asked this question a lot in the past about my self and my family. My standard answer would be no because I am Mormon and my wife is Catholic and our children are Morlics wich means that they are double damned. This would create a look of bewilderment, disgust, and challenge on the face of the Pious Non Denominational, Non Judgemental, Non Condemning christian or JW face. After politely turning down countless offers to attend sunday worship with indviduals or bible study groups to correct my unchristian cultish ways, I still get asked when I want to be saved. and now I tell them that I have and I will reafirm this on Holy Saturday March 25, 2005 when I recieve the sacraments of baptism, First communion, and confrimation at St. Elizabeth Anne Seaton Catholic Chuch. That look of bewilderment, disgust, and challenge on the face of the pious Non Denominational, Non Judgemental, Non Condemning christian or JW doesn’t seem to change as if I got rid of my bull horns and serpent tail and replaced them with goat horns and an ox tail.
 
Hey, well I don’t like this question…

We have no guarantee of our salvation…no one here on earth can say whether we are saved or not…that is God’s choice.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved : but he that believeth not shall be condemned
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Mark 16:16

It is not enough to just believe in Jesus, we must belong to His church, where we receive His Body and His Blood…we are supposed to believe all the truths that Jesus taught in their entirety - not pick and choose what we want to believe. He established His church on earth - which is His mystical body…if we are not part of His church, we are not part of His mystical body.

St John Chapter 5
I AM the true vine ; and my Father is the husbandsman. Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away : and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine ; you the branches : he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit : for without me you can do nothing. If anyone abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire, and he burneth.
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If I am asked are you saved, I will ask the person what do you mean by that?
The usual response is: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
To which I respond, Yes. Somestimes I’ll throw in as an after thought I’m working out my salvation in fear and trembling as it says in the Bible.
 
When I was in a Bible study group one night at about age 13 or so in my old church (a southern Baptist one), one of the points in our book was that we should be 100% sure that if we die right at that instance, we will be in Heaven. If we were even 99.9% sure, we were short of 100%, and needed to remedy that small doubt by getting on our knees right then and there, and accepting Jesus Christ into our heart as our Lord and Savior. Afterwards, your slate would be then, and forever wiped clean, and the doubt should disappear.

Well, I had that .1% doubt that night, because I was confused. I felt guilty for it, but still confused. Actually, I was perplexed throughout my whole childhood about how a person could do wicked things, but expect instant salvation immediately upon death. Not only does it not make sense to the mind, but it doesn’t make sense to the heart. Several Bible verses, some of which itsjustdave listed, helped me immensely in my understanding. If you believe the Bible is the final word of truth, then the proof is right there.
 
It is proper to speak of salvation as a past event. St. Paul told the Ephesians that they had been saved by grace through faith.

Jesus said that a person with (true) faith has passed from death to life.

That’s what the evangelical is referring to when he asks his “witnessing” question. Many people go to church and just “go through the motions” and have never received a new heart and new life through faith.

Certainly the word “save” is used in the Bible with reference to both a present process and a future event (or process). But both the present and future uses have their foundation in a past event when the lost sinner passed from death to life. Prior to that event, we are “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2).
 
On second thought, I want to change my vote to “Isn’t everyone?”

No one voted for it and if someone voted for the fourth option, this one certainly deserves one at least.

Besides, did not Christ die for our sins, and “our” includes everyone who existed and will exist? So Christ carried our burden and paid the price, something so germaine to Holy Week coming soon. God’s gift is to all who accepts.
 
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emarc:
I’m a sinner for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. I repent and continue to repent for my sins. I humble myself and pray before God, I seek His face and turn away from my wicked ways. I believe and was baptised. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is my Lord and savior and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I call on Jesus name ceaselessly. Do you think I’m saved?
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Yes, I believe!
 
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catholic2:
On second thought, I want to change my vote to “Isn’t everyone?”

No one voted for it and if someone voted for the fourth option, this one certainly deserves one at least.

Besides, did not Christ die for our sins, and “our” includes everyone who existed and will exist? So Christ carried our burden and paid the price, something so germaine to Holy Week coming soon. God’s gift is to all who accepts.
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It depends on how you want to interpret the question, I suppose. Being of a Protestant background, I know that to most people who ask that question, “saved” is synonymous with “absolutely going to Heaven.”
 
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