Q: "Are you saved?"
A: I am saved, I am being saved, I will be saved.
1) I am saved - On the day I was baptized, Christ chose me, not I him, to be a member of his Body and the relationship he has with the Father by nature, I now have through adoption. (Ephesians 1:4)
2) I am being saved - Through the action of the Holy Spirit at work through prayer, life in the community, immersion into the Scriptures, uniting myself to Christ's offering in the Eucharist, service to the last, the lost, and the least, and a life of conversion, I am being conformed to the image of Christ and Christ is being formed within me. Catholics don't think works save us, but conformity into Christ should be real, distinguishable and identifiable (Galatians 4:19)
3) I will be saved - There will be a day when all the elect will be bound into unity and formed into the complete body of Christ with Jesus as the head of his body and we will have an intimate, face to face relationship with the Father ...the relationship Christ has by his nature and that we have through adoption will be ours in its fullness: heaven.
From Robert Feduccia
@robertfeduccia
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