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LilyM
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Just say ‘as much as any of us is’ or something.
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4elise
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I love this metaphor!
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maryjk
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I’ve said something similar.
“I didn’t know He was lost.” (The guy I said it to, wasn’t happy.
)Because really, he is never lost. We get lost, and by His Grace we find our way back.
If someone asks if I have been saved, I just say yes. They really don’t want to have a conversation with me. Living in the South, I have found that most people that ask that question want to invite you to their mega church.
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JohnPaul64
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How can anyone honestly say their saved. Unless your 100 % sure you don’t sin you should never really feel totally comfortable.
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maryjk
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Right, but unless you want to get into a theological discussion at the Mall, while you are out for a walk/bike ride or at the grocery store, saying yes is much easier.
And yes, in some parts of the country, a total stranger will walk up to you to ask if you are saved.
Sometimes when that happens, I just say yes, so I can get my grocery shopping done.
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PJM
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“I didn’t know He was lost.” (The guy I said it to, wasn’t happy.
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Friend, might you have missed an opportunity to envangualize our Catholic Faith?**
Perhaps something along these lines would have been more effective and perhaps a bit more charitable?
QUESTION: “Have you been saved?”
REPLY:
Yes I have been saved and I am being Saved!
You see I’m a Catholic, and we accept Jesus Christ as our Personal Lord and Savior!
{That should get a response}
However we use the entire bible and are able to understand that our Blessed Lord, by His birth, life, death and Resurrection Redeemed us which can, but does not always lead to Salvation, because that is what the bible teaches.
Your understanding of “Once saved, always saved” is nowhere to be found in the bible. Evidence of the Catholic position is.
Look up and memorize these few verses:
Mt. 16:19, 1 Jn. 5:, Mt. 19:16, Jn. 20:23-24 and Jn.3:5, James 2:, …. All of these support this position.
Now you have something you can discuss. Even debate!
Love and prayers,
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Ruthie
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LOL. Maybe not exactly approved from an apologetical standpoint. Here’s one I love telling on my priest:
He was crossing the road in front of the church one day, in his clericals, when someone on a bicycle pulled up and asked him if he knew Jesus. Father responded, “Not only do I know Him, but I eat Him every day!”
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maryjk
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Nope. This was my husband’s boss. He used to be Catholic, but now he is Christian.
He has invited us to his mega church more than once, even after knowing that I am Catholic. He doesn’t want to hear about the Catholic faith. He knows all about it, see he used to be an altar boy. 
Where I live, people are regularly accosted in the street by people, asking if you have found Jesus, if you are saved or if you know Jesus. After awhile, you have to come up with quick answers or you would spend all day talking to these people and none of the day doing the things you plan to do. As a wife and mother, getting groceries, going to the library and getting exercise is sometimes more important than trying to evangelize.
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PJM
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In that case when asked “are you saved?” I’d reply yep:thumbsup:Nope. This was my husband’s boss. He used to be Catholic, but now he is Christian.
Where I live, people are regularly accosted in the street by people, asking if you have found Jesus, if you are saved or if you know Jesus. After awhile, you have to come up with quick answers or you would spend all day talking to these people and none of the day doing the things you plan to do. As a wife and mother, getting groceries, going to the library and getting exercise is sometimes more important than trying to evangelize.
If asked “Do you know Jesus?” I really liked fathers response. Yep, I had Him for breakfast
Love and prayers,
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Felicity_in_TX
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This is so true! When I first converted to Catholicism, I’d try to “explain” myself to these types of Evangelists only to find out that they were SO shocked that I’d grown up in a Baptist church and then chose as an adult to be Catholic that there was no opportunity for real discussion. Time and time again it has quickly devolved into people trying to convince me how wrong I was for converting and how I really should visit their stadium-sized church to hear their preacher who’s written 5 books and drives a Bentley and see if I just don’t change my mind. Talk about annoying!
Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to look up those verses to share with my boyfriend’s mom (she’s ultra Independent Baptist). When she found out I was Catholic, but had been raised in a Baptist home, she actually said to me, “you got saved and baptized when you were a child, right?” Not wanting to argue, I replied, “yes, I did”. Then she turned to my boyfriend and said, “well, it’s not like she’s a lifelong Catholic. At least you know she isn’t going to hell.” As time has gone on, she’s said things like this more than once and I’ve been kicking myself for not knowing how to respond to her. There is no point in trying to change the woman’s mind, but I’d at least like to be able to give her something to think about.
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redtech
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I’ve GOT to remember that!
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Ruthie
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Here’s something by our own Karl Keating:
catholic.com/newsletters/kke_041116.asp
God bless you,
Ruthie
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redtech
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I haven’t been asked this in a LONG time but the last time it did, I just got mad.
Thats the problem with some Christians. They think they are “saved” and are then free to keep on sinning.
Thats the problem with some Christians. They think they are “saved” and are then free to keep on sinning.
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Felicity_in_TX
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Thank you! That is very interesting. I’m going it away to share with her the next time she brings up the subject.
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Supercatholic
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There was a time I had no clue what that question meant. Then when I found out I didn’t how to answer it, because I never “felt saved”. I was waiting for some sort of never before feeling to envelop me. But now that I know the right answer people don’t ask me anymore. But when they do this will be my answer. “Not completely, but since I am a practicing member of the only true church established by Christ himself I am permitted and given the grace to participate in a journey that will lead me to being saved. You however, are not only not saved, you seriously risk God’s wrath for predetermining his judgement.” He who endures to the “end” will be saved. That’s the end of life. Not the end of the day or week or the most recent revival meeting.
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ahoyhoy
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Heh. I remember when the idea of being “saved” was so peculiar to me that the first time I was asked that as a teenager I just stared blankly.
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SamH
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Agreed. Usually I follow up with “Unless you have pizza you need to get off my porch”.I agree . . . even IF “your Scriptural Apologetics chops are well honed” (isn’t that a mixed metaphor?) it is often the best response unless you want to be drawn into a circular argument with the one asking.
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sanctamaria17
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My parents would answer that with, “There’s not enough wine in our house for this conversation.” And they’ve always made sure we had plenty.
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mdgspencer
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Luckily, no one has asked me this quesiton. If they did though, I would make a serious attempt to explain the Catholic position, which maybe would do them some good. The belief of some Protestants that someone is saved all at one time and never loses their salvation later in life is quite out of line with reality and is likely to do them harm (though I would be too diplomatic to say this.)
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NPalmby
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I agree. Unfortunately, I know some Catholics who follow the same model. Two young women I knew in college would party all night every Friday night, then go to Confession on Saturday. Then they’d party all night Saturday night (staying up all night) and go to early morning Mass on Sunday. Of course, the things they boasted were the frequent Confessions and going to early morning Mass every Sunday.Thats the problem with some Christians. They think they are “saved” and are then free to keep on sinning.
Whenever I talk to people like that, I remind myself that God knows what’s in their hearts, and then I let it go.
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