Are You Saved? (Special Podcast Highlight)
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been asked this question: "Are you saved?"
Maybe you felt flustered and didn't know how to respond. Can you, as a Catholic, say that you're saved? Is this scriptural?
In this podcast episode of The Patrick Madrid Show, the caller, Heather, asks whether Catholics can claim to be saved and discusses the perspective of Protestant family members who believe in "once saved, always saved." Patrick Madrid provides a comprehensive response.
He explains that the Bible uses various verb tenses (past, present progressive, and future) when discussing salvation. Catholics can say they have been saved (past), are being saved (present progressive), and will be saved (future) by God's grace. However, this doesn't imply an absolute assurance of salvation because individuals can choose to turn away from faith.
Patrick cites biblical passages such as 1 Corinthians 3, Ephesians 2, Acts 2, Acts 27, 1 Corinthians 1, and 2 Corinthians 2 to illustrate the different verb tenses used regarding salvation. He emphasizes that Catholics should approach the concept of salvation with humility, understanding that they need to work out their salvation in fear and trembling, as warned by St. Paul. Patrick also notes that the belief in "once saved, always saved" is a common misunderstanding of Scripture, particularly prevalent in certain Protestant denominations. He provides examples of passages that suggest the possibility of losing salvation.
He encourages Heather to engage in fruitful discussions with her Protestant family members by referencing these passages when they discuss the topic of salvation.
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| 0:00.0 | 888914914. |
| 0:06.0 | Let's go to Heather now in West Concord, Minnesota. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, Heather. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi. |
| 0:11.0 | My question is, can we claim that we are saved? |
| 0:16.0 | My husband's side of the family, they're all Protestant. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm thinking, I don't know like can |
| 0:21.5 | can we walk around saying that even as Catholics we walk around saying we're |
| 0:25.1 | saved because at any point in time you can fall away and at that point you're |
| 0:30.0 | well you're not saved then so the the Bible uses that term it says talks about |
| 0:36.2 | those who have been saved it talks about being saved and, talks about those who have been saved. It talks about being saved and it talks |
| 0:40.7 | about people who will be saved. So one verse that comes to my mind is the, in First Corinthians |
| 0:46.3 | chapter 3, that classic verse that deals with purgatory, begins in verse 10. And he there describes this man who after his death and judgment is experiencing the pain of purgatory. It begins in verse 10, and he there describes this man who, after his death |
| 0:55.6 | and judgment, is experiencing the pain of purification as the wood, the hay and the straw, the bad |
| 1:01.4 | works of his life are burned away. He says he suffers loss and he will be saved, but only as though |
| 1:08.5 | passing through fire. In Ephesians 2, verses 8 through 9, St. Paul says, |
| 1:14.6 | for by grace, you have been saved through faith. So the Bible uses all three tenses, verb tenses, |
| 1:22.7 | so past tense, present progressive, and future tense. Some examples of the present progressive. So the Bible says in Acts 2, |
| 1:30.9 | and also in Acts 27, it says, and the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being |
| 1:36.5 | saved, or in Acts 2720. And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many a day and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being |
| 1:45.5 | saved was at last abandoned. Now that there is referring to a shipwreck, but it has the same sense of, |
| 1:52.4 | you know, getting out of this difficult situation. Or 1st. Corinthians 118, for the word of the cross |
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