Chat: You are a good Catholic.
Being a “good Catholic” is not the same thing as being born again, and being born again is ESSENTIAL for going to heaven instead of hell whether you are Catholic or not. There is no such thing as living a good enough life to be admitted to heaven. No matter how “good” you are, you cannot get to heaven on your own merit unless you are perfect. You aren’t, and neither is anyone else. You could attend Mass and Confession every day of your life and still end up in hell because you sinned one time by dishonoring your mother with sassy backtalk, thus breaking the fifth commandment. You have sinned, and you need to be saved from your sins by receiving Jesus as your Lord.
Don’t be deceived into thinking that confessing your sins to another man will save you from those sins’ consequences – it won’t. Don’t believe the sign at the shrine that tells you that you will be forgiven for all your sins if you ascend the stone steps on your knees – it won’t change you from a sinner to a saint, but rather change you from a sinner to a sinner whose knees hurt. Don’t believe that receiving “the host” at Mass will forgive your sins. Real Communion, as opposed to the Catholic Eucharist, is a COMMEMORATION of what Jesus did to wash away your sins once and for all, NOT a re-sacrificing of Christ for your sins as the Roman Catholic Church teaches.
While it is possible to be Roman Catholic AND born again, and I have met quite a few people who are, it is also possible to be Roman Catholic and lost. It is not a matter of being Roman Catholic but rather a matter of believing that God raised Jesus from the dead and confessing Him as Lord.
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