Every time I try and talk to a Protestant person on just about anything, it’s the same old line “Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour”? And they add, because if you do, then you will be saved. I personally know that that is too easy and although I of course do accept Him, I don’t feel I have to keep repeating that same old phrase. And what do you tell Protestants about us being Baptised, therefore that is where our Born Again comes in. they don’t believe this. One more question is they don’t believe Mary was a virgin…how does one explain any of this? Thak you.
From Catholic Answers:
catholic.com/thisrock/2002/0203sbs.asp
Here is something else from CA:
FUNDAMENTALISTS ask, “Have you been saved?”–a question which conceives of salvation as a past event. While Scripture does sometimes speak of salvation as a past event (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5, 8, 2 Tim. 1:9, Titus 3:5), or as a present process (Phil. 2:12, 1 Pet. 1:9), it most often speaks of it as a future event:
" [A]nd you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved" (Matt. 10:22).
“For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it” (Mark 8:3-5).
“But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will” (Acts 15:11).
“Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life” (Rom. 5:9-10).
“Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed” (Rom. 13:11).
“If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire” (1 Cor. 3:15).
“[Y]ou are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (1 Cor. 5:5).
Here is another from CA:
It isn’t enough just to “accept Jesus as personal Lord and Savior.” If you want to be saved, you also have to work at it. You’ll be judged not just on what you believe, but on what you do.
“You are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the last judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness” (Rom. 2:5-8).
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil” (2 Cor. 5:10).
“Their end will correspond to their deeds” (2 Cor. 11:15).
“Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will receive recompense for the wrong he committed, and there is no partiality” (Col. 3:24-25).
“Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning” (1 Pet. 1:17).
“Then another scroll was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls. The sea gave up its dead; then Death and Hades gave up their dead. All the dead were judged according to their deeds” (Rev. 20:12-13).
You can also read this, too:
catholic.com/thisrock/1992/9204fea2.asp
My feelings exactly!! I love Confession and I LOVE The Catholic Church! 
, now you mention it
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- though how it can be presumption to receive what God gives to any Christian for His Son’s honour & glory, & because of the great neediness of His People for those gifts, beats me; as well might one call it presumption to say one has received the grace of absolution). **