Apparently, you don’t know that you are saved. At least you’re being consistent with Roman teaching.
The Catholic Church is consistent with Biblical Teaching:
1 Corinthians 4:3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
But I tell you that you can know you are saved and that God wants you to know if you are saved.
That's true. But Scripture qualifies that statement with a very important fact:
1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
So, if we keep His Commandments, we can be sure that we will go to heaven. Do you keep His Commandments? Yes or no.
But that would mean trusting in Christ alone and not in a church that cannot save you.
And yet, Scripture instructs you to trust in the Church:
1 Timothy 3:15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Otherwise, Scripture would not call the Church, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
If you can participate in the mass daily and still end up in hell, the sacraments are doing absolutely nothing for you.
There's no difference there from the Protestant who claims to have faith but ends up in hell. There are many, Scripture says, who will have faith in vain.
1 Timothy 1:19Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Hebrews 6:4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Throwing out a random verse from Romans 14 that is not dealing with justification proves nothing. You should actually try and make an argument from a verse that is pertinent to the situation.
All the verses I've provided are pertinent to the situation, you just don't want to hear it. You're living in denial of the truth.
All the verses I've provided are pertinent to the situation, you just don't want to hear it. You're living in denial of the truth.
Actually, I don’t feel good about myself. I am confident in my salvation not because I am faithful but because the Judge became incarnate and gave His life for me, and, believing in His resurrection I am saved. Before God’s bar of justice, I am not faithful. He doesn’t grade on a curve, y’know.
Several points here:
Several points here:
1. You call God your Judge but you deny that He will judge you. Thus, you are making yourself the judge of your salvation.
2. You declare yourself unfaithful, yet you claim that God will allow you into heaven, even though you acknowledge that He does not grade on a curve. Thus, damning yourself, because you are right. God does not lie, God does not fudge. You are either worthy of salvation or not. God alone judges that fact.
1 Corinthians 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.