Can Roman Catholics be saved? Yes, they can but not if they adhere to Roman Catholic theology. Like anyone else, salvation is found only through faith in Christ alone. Roman Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, etc., are no exception. Salvation is found only by believing the gospel that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead. This message is received by faith alone, and we can add no works to what Christ has done. This is why the Bible says that we are justified by faith (Romans 5:1) without the works of the law (Ephesians 2:8.).

However, in Roman Catholicism salvation is not by faith alone in Christ alone. In Roman Catholicism, that which is necessary for salvation includes the church (Catechism of the Catholic Church 846), baptism (CCC 1257), penance (CCC 980), sacraments (CCC 1129), service and witness to the faith (CCC 1816), keeping the ten commandments (CCC 2036, 2068, 2070), and detachment from riches (CCC 2556).

In other words, Roman Catholicism teaches works' righteousness and because it does, anyone who seeks salvation in the Roman Catholic system will never find it.

So, Roman Catholics must repent of the false doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and trust in Christ alone by faith alone for the forgiveness of his or her sins. There is no other way.

1. "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law," (Rom. 3:28).

2. "For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness," (Rom. 4:3).

3. "But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness," (Rom. 4:5).

Boomboost:


I admire your Christian firmness.

....And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life ; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds . 14Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire 15And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire

tartar9:
so you mean almost all xtians living up to the 16th century will burn in hell. xtianity and confusion.

OLAADEGBU:


To God be all the glory.

Boomboost:


Can U create a topic bout sexual lust and how to overcome it in a [b]practical[b/] way . Its my spiritual weak point.

johnydon22:
Catholics make up more than 60% of christians living today, according to our gate man of the pearly gates he has condemned them all to hell literally.... Can someone get any sicker?

tartar9:
if anything catholics have far more claim over xtianity.

OLAADEGBU:

Salvation is found only by believing the gospel that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead.

Scholar8200:
That's not correct! Do you have proof?

Ubenedictus:
where were d protestant in d first 1600yrs of christianity

Rilwayne001:


There you ago again the ever confused Olaadegbu. What Gospel was Jesus talking about in Luke 4:43? Is it the same as the one you wanted us to believe above?

Scholar8200:
The tenor of the post I replied suggests to me that we weigh the impact based not on timing but Truths discovered, circulated and published!

btoks:


How can you or Matt Slick be taken seriously when you blatantly misrepresent catholic teaching.
The CC does not teach a works righteousness, get that right and repost.

nobilis:


This is exactly why I maintain that Christianity is just a silly religion filled with back-stabbers and hypocrites.
Some Christians are talking about ecumenism, while others are seeing how one denomination or the other cannot be saved and therefore have to be avoided.
Yet all these denominations claim to be led by the Holy Spirit.
So this una Holy Spirit must be an intrinsically divisive spirit or it is a spirit of confusion and discord.

Now you have quoted Paul's epistle to the Romans where Paul talked about the value of faith; saying that faith alone is what is needed for salvation.

But you blatantly ignore James' epistle where he boldly stated that Faith without [size=18pt]good works[/size] is dead in itself

You can now see how contradictory your bible is.
And you can now see how confused a bunch you Christians are.

Aizenosa:


True Catholicism isn't normal we all get that, but what I don't truly get is dat can u say from d death of Christ to the founding of Protestantism dat no one has made heaven?

Because the apostles passed down teaching through oral and written words, many lost and till today can't be found.

Tradition as defined is the way of life of a people.

Way which has been modified into habits and then into lifestyle such as the way the apostles lived and passed down up till today

Now the bitter truth John 3:16 do we really understand it

For God so LOVED the world that He gave His begotten Son that who so ever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.

Truly I agree with the above but let me explain it to u

1st remember ananias and sapphira they agreed with the above Love but lost it due to bad works of pride and lies and it got them damination. Acts 5:1-11

2nd remember Peter and Cornelius how LOVE made Peter open up the LOVE of Christ to Cornelius and his household. They received God's Love and they gained salvation Acts 10:1-33

Also take a look at John 13:31-35 (LOVE)

All these put together if u don't have LOVE in Christ and LOVE in ur neighbor (both go together) den u can't attain heaven.

tartar9:


so you mean almost all xtians living up to the 16th century will burn in hell. xtianity and confusion.

esere826:


@olaadegbu




I have no opinion
but I'm curious to what all of this means

johnydon22:


Catholics make up more than 60% of christians living today, according to our gate man of the pearly gates he has condemned them all to hell literally.... Can someone get any sicker?

italo:


No...Catholics who compiled the Bible in the 4th century and have been teaching the world about Christ from the 1st century can't be saved...

...it is Protestants who only came about in the 16th century and lied that the bible fell from the sky that are saved.



Fooooools!

Demmzy15:


OLAADEGBU I must report you to the DSS, see how you excommunicated a whole billion people just because you have little differences. Don't you know you can cause war?

OLAADEGBU:


Only Noah and his family were saved during the great deluge. Don't think numbers will dissuade God.

OLAADEGBU:
Can Roman catholics be saved?



https://carm.org/can-catholics-be-saved