Comments on: Are You Saved? A Catholic Response to a Common Protestant Question https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/ A network of inquirers, converts, and reverts to the Catholic Church, as well as life-long Catholics, all on a journey of continual conversion to Jesus Christ. Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:39:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Jeffrey Job https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29374 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:51:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29374 In reply to Mike Crognale.

Yes that’s true enough. We have to first decide which of two groups the person is in. One asks questions to find truth, the other asks questions to avoid truth.
Jesus spoke to Pilate, He didn’t say a word to Herod.
I once had a son of a Lutheran minister asking questions. He would ask, I would start to respond and when he realized I had a logical answer he would then interrupt and say”well what about?”

After a few rounds of Scriptural ping pong I abruptly stopped the explanation and told him the ground rules are like this. You can ask a hundred questions but you will ask one and give me a chance to respond. Then we move on to the next one. If you don’t do that this conversation is over. The other point is whoever is asking the questions is leading the dance. He gets one then I do.
It turned into a year long respectful exchange after which he said that if Christianity is true it’s definitely Catholic.

So yes, we have to see whether the questioner is sincere or just trying to make us look foolish for believing what we do.

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By: Mike Crognale https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29373 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:49:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29373 In reply to Jeffrey Job.

The problem that I have experienced is that when I troed to explain my Catholic faith to the questioner I got the usual “whore of Babylon” baloney. I countered with a correction that the phrase refers to the old Roman Empire but they never want to hear it. So I quit trying.

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By: Jeffrey Job https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29371 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:02:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29371 In reply to Mike Crognale.

But that doesn’t engage the assumption that it’s one and done. It’s a great evangelizing moment. They view salvation as like peeling a banana, one layer and done.
We know it’s like peeling an onion, layer upon layer.

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By: James Stanley Aldrich https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29333 Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:36:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29333 Sometimes I reply “I’ve been justified; my salvation is being worked out.” Or if I have my Scripture references handy I say “I have been saved; I am being saved, and I will be saved,” Or if I don’t have time to talk I say “Yes” and mention the date of my baptism.

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By: Jeffrey Job https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29221 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:19:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29221 In reply to Ellie Turko.

Now read verse 10 -for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus FOR GOOD WORKS which God prepared beforehand THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM. The works Paul speaks of are many times referencing the works of the old law such as circumcision which were shadows of coming realities. Of course the shadow has no value any longer when the reality appears.
Nobody believed in faith alone for 1500 years until the arrival of arch-heretic Luther showed up, with a few minor exceptions

Read the writings of guys called Church Fathers to see that the faith has been Catholic from day one. They know nothing of the Protestant heresies.
You’re welcome.

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By: Ellie Turko https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29213 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 07:30:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29213 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God–not of works, lest any man should boast.”—Ephesians 2:8-9

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By: Deacon Keith Fournier https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29212 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:12:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29212 In reply to Mike Crognale.

Yes. Keep it simple.

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By: Mike Crognale https://chnetwork.org/2017/07/05/saved-catholic-response-common-protestant-question/#comment-29207 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:43:00 +0000 https://chnetwork.org/?p=46487#comment-29207 I get that question a lot. I simply reply, “yes”.

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