How do you know if you've been saved?

[TheLittleLady]

We can remain in a state of grace, in friendship with God, and know we are “saved”. No “gotchas” from God if we remain in His friendship

 

[MidnightMcConnell]

Because you are members of God’s family, being in Christ, also described as being born from above by embracing Jesus as Yahweh incarnate.

 

[DrawNearToGod]

Unless by private revelation

Council of Trent, On Justification

CANON XVI.-If any one saith, that he will for certain, of an absolute and infallible certainty, have that great gift of perseverance unto the end - unless he have learned this by special revelation ; let him be anathema.

 

[childinthefaith]

Can we know that we’ve been saved before the hour of our death?

We are, as I understand it, to “work out our salvation in fear and trembling,” so can not know until we die. We can have a level of confidence in our eternal destiny through the Sacraments and how we live I think… the goal is to die “in a state of grace” as I personally see it.

So in direct reply to the question, no we can not.

One thing I’m confident of though is, I will be judged on what I’ve done right, not what I believed or thought, or said was right.