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SickOfTheOnePct

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28. Not when they're born...
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 05:46 PM
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...but when they're born again, i.e, they accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. That's why evangelicals require a "profession of faith", after the age of reason, before they are baptized; it's so that the person is aware of what they are doing, what salvation means in their church, and what the commitments are, whereas Catholics baptize infants to protect them until they are of the age of reason. Of course evangelicals are still called to live according to the teachings of Christ, but the "rebirth" saves them even if they don't.

In the Catholic Church, yes, we accept Christ as savior, but we're also called to do good works - acts of faith, hope, and charity, (short version, LOL) and we're taught that our salvation can be lost if we don't die in a state of grace...that would be committing mortal sins and dying before confession, etc. We're also taught that even venial sins, although they don't cost us salvation, lead us to more time in purgatory before making it to heaven.

All of the above is obviously over-simplified, but it gives you the gist of why I gleaned what I did from her interview.

When I read Erika Kirk say that she didn't want the shooter's blood on her ledger, that's very much a Catholic teaching re: the death penalty, and very much a Catholic notion of being able to "lose" salvation.

Sorry to be so wordy.

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Clarification Requested DET Wednesday #27
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