Assurance of Salvation is practically stock-in-trade with most evangelical Christians. “How can I know I’m really saved?” or “how can I be sure I’ll go to heaven when I die?” are questions many new Christians ask. A favorite verse for those who want to encourage people that they can know for sure that they have […]
Do you believe a person becomes a Christian as the result of saying a “sinner’s prayer”? If so, I have five questions. Question 1: Then what? After I say the “sinners prayer” to be saved, then what? When I went to Navy boot camp in 1987 one month after my eighteenth birthday, and just one […]
One of the most often-used and erroneous mischaracterizations of the teaching of the Catholic Church is that the Church teaches “salvation by works,” whereas Protestantism “correctly” teaches salvation by grace through faith alone – or, “justification by faith alone.” In order to correct both errors (the error that the Catholic Church teaches salvation by works, […]