Is confession and confirmation the same as getting saved?

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But we didn’t add more books to the bible…Protestants left them out! There is a wonderful book I read a few years ago called the Essential Catholic Survival Guide, by the staff of Catholic Answers. It’s really informative and helpful!
 
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TheLittleLady said:
I have been saved, I am being saved, I shall be saved. Salvation is a process.
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I really like this answer, too, though I usually say the end as “I hope to be saved.”

I was saved at baptism, I am saved every time I go to confession, and I hope to be saved when I die.
 
Jump4Joy said:
I don’t want to go to hell
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It is a good start!
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There is the temptation we’re fully committed adults using protection so there are no possible repercussions.
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Oh my dear, there are many possible repurcussions. If you think that pregnancy and STD’s are the only ones, then you do not understand what happens spiritually when people join this way.
 
Premarital sex doesn’t always have a devastating effect. Some people have sex with multiple partners with no concern. That’s a subjective answer. Some are fully content fornicating so long as they don’t catch STDs, feelings or someone becomes pregnant.
 
Contraception is not 100 percent-especially when used imperfectly. What happens if you DO become pregnant? Abortion or single parenthood? Or an absent father because he didn’t “plan on it” or make a promise before God to you let alone a child? And yes having sex is consent to potential pregnancy.
 
Jump4Joy said:
Do I really want to my priest about sex?
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It is not so much about the “sex” but you need to talk about your spiritual condition - that you do not have contrition for sins, though you know they are “selfish and wrong” and you wish you did not have a conscience, which is that through which God is speaking to you to save your eternal soul. These are spiritual matters, not sexual matters.
 
These are not personal views just points people have pointed out to me. Some people aren’t fearful or traumatized by abortion, especially if they think it is okay.
There are obviously not Catholic. Why even mention them?
 
That’s really irrelevant to your post.

Saved is a protestant (mostly Baptist) concept.
We are redeemed through the Crucifixion of Christ
We confess to help us to avoid future sin and to express regreat and sorrow for hurting God with our past and present sins…
If you are resolved to stop those sins, that is a problem.
You DO need to speak to a priest.
ASAP, in fact.
You have many many thoughts that are concerning, and inaccurate for a Catholic.

Are you a Catholic?
 
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I’m a baptized, confirmed, church going Catholic from a Catholic household
 
Jump4Joy said:
Protestants really know their Bible. If I say I don’t know, it’s an opening to be evangelized to. I attend my friends young adult worship service at a non-denominational Church.
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So you are not Catholic?
 
Then how is it you don’t know what Confession requires (repentant spirit) and that premarital sex is always forbidden?
 
I’m Catholic. In my experience Catholics don’t know the Bible as well as Protestants
 
I know that. I’m not at the place spiritually that I want to stop even though it’s wrong but I don’t want to go to hell. I know premarital sex is wrong but I wish it weren’t.
 
Why?

Don’t you know that separation from God is far worse than any momentary pleasure?

See the priest. Make an appointment, and have things sorted out for you.
I would also suggest you start looking at some of the video talks by Crystalina Evert.
 
Even in a relationship outside of marriage, there is nothing to keep either of you easily walking away if someone else catches your fancy. So if you get pregnant, you could easily be a single mother(despite what he says now and despite if he is a Christian). People change their feelings all the time. A real sacramental marriage binds two people together for Life and procreation is expected and encouraged within it because it’s best for a child to have a mom and dad. It’s a natural part of sex! When you contracept you are giving your bodies to each other conditionally-“I want sex with you, but not children”.
 
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