Is confession and confirmation the same as getting saved?

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Should I only go to confession if I want to stop my sin? I confess because I know it’s wrong but I don’t want to stop completely.
“Give me chastity not just yet.”
I haven’t completely stopped lying. I don’t like it or exaggerating. I honestly doubt I’ll stop lying for the rest of my life.
 
I would suggest you make an appointment with a priest. You really seem to have a lot of questions/issues that only a priest could answer correctly, as evidenced by your multiple threads over the years.
 
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You’re not the first person to refer me to a priest. It looks like I cannot manage my own life by seeking help. I probably should stop expressing myself online, even more opinions to encounter. I wonder how some people keep questions, doubts and inconsistences and confusion in their head.
 
Have you made first confession, first communion and been confirmed in the church
 
A Protestant asked me if I had been saved. I exposed my ignorance by stating I didn’t know what that even means. Of course the gospel was preached to me
 
Well, valid reception of the sacrament of Reconciliation does require a firm purpose of amendment.

CCC 1451 Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is “sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again.”

If it’s like… I will try my hardest to not commit this sin again, then that’s fine, commendable even (even if I do eventually do it again, it’s the intention to amend my life that counts). But if it’s like I’m planning on committing this sin again, then there definitely seems to be an issue.
 
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As for “being saved” as I understand it the Catholic view is more that salvation is a process, not like the “I professed my faith in Jesus and I am now saved” many Protestants seem to believe.
 
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Are you having sex outside marriage

Who really cares what a person not of the catholic faith thinks about you being saved or not. You are Catholic, Your being saved is different to how other religions believe saving to be,
 
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No. I don’t want to have save myself for marriage. I know that sounds bad. I know it is a sin. It’s difficult for me to fully commit to giving up all sexual sins. I know I must do it, even if I really don’t want to.
 
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Well it’s a tough gig, not having sex outside marriage, but Jesus asks this of us,

And when we say, I don’t want to, we should think of Jesus being nailed to a cross for us.

Then it sounds a bit selfish of us saying, I don’t want to follow the Commandments.
 
Well have you met with a priest since it has been mentioned more than once? And are you worried it will look like you can’t manage? I am not sure what you mean. You are obviously struggling, so why not get help?
 
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That’s where the cognitive dissonance occurs. I wish I didn’t have a conscience. I know it’s selfish and wrong. There is the temptation we’re fully committed adults using protection so there are no possible repercussions.
 
Expose my ignorance about the faith. Do I really want to my priest about sex? There was a really kind priest I became friends with and I talked to. He moved away. It’s weird you recognize me by my writing style.
 
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That’s where the cognitive dissonance occurs.
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Are you under the care of mental health professionals

It’s a temptation for everyone, not just you.

You remind me of pelagia penitent,
 
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“I don’t think you need to concern yourself with that.” Is what I would answer if someone asked me if I was saved.
 

Usually, though, it’s best to avoid such conversation I find. They tend to be very insistent in their views (of course) and well prepared to defend them with Scripture passages and such. It’s not that the arguments are strong, it’s that trying to counter them rarely does much good unless you’re actually trained as an apologist or something, because they are very much set in their ways.
 
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