Once Saved Always Saved?

How many times have Catholics been asked by a Protestant: Are you saved? This question is quite simple to answer if one has taken the time to learn what the Bible teaches. Salvation is a free gift given by the grace of God, but because of our freewill we can turn our backs on His gift by committing mortal sin. Everyone like it or not is responsible for their actions and will answer for them on the day of judgment. "All of us have a scrutiny to undergo before Christ's judgement-seat, for each to reap what his mortal life has earned, good or ill, according to his deeds" (2 Cor 5:10)

If one thinks about it, Protestants actually have the audacity to play God and proclaim themselves saved, once they have accepted Jesus as "their personal Lord and Savior." What they don’t understand is that there twisted notion of judgment and salvation is in direct conflict with the Word of God. "I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purpose of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God" (1 Cor 4:4-5)

Catholics confronted with the question, are you saved?, should answer by saying, "I am redeemed by the Blood of Christ, I trust in Him alone for my salvation, and as the Bible teaches in (Phil 2:12 ), "I am a working out my salvation in fear and trembling."

“it is clear that Jesus and the Church are the same thing: indissoluble, inseparable. Christ and the Church are only one thing. It is not possible to say: 'I believe in Jesus, I accept Jesus, but I do not accept the Church.” Pope John Paul I in a General Audience on September 13, 1978

"but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified." (1 Cor. 9:27)

"For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them." (2 Peter 2:20-21)

"Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Cor. 6:9-10)

"but he who endures to the end will be saved."Mt 10:22)

"Take care, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart leading you to fall away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin . For we share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first." (Heb 3: 12-14)

"Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity to those who have fallen, but kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off. And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again."(Rom 11:22-23)

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of the Father who is heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Matt 7:21)