John Mullally
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Paul was given an offer he could not refuse.Ok, so Paul wasn't saved by the working of the Holy Spirit on the road to Damascus or if he was saved, it was a special case of election.
As a Catholic in my early teens, I started reading the Gospels in my early teens and I recognized that my Catholic upbringing did not prepare me to understand much of the NT - later I determined that was a problem everywhere. The Catholic church speaks a lot about love, confessing sins, communion, current affairs, and what days you have to go to Mass, but I never heard anything about salvation and justification by faith. My observation was that most Catholics were Universalists who practice the sacraments.Here is my order:
1) A person who hears the Word and believes (one act) is saved. That Faith received through Grace.
2) At that moment, the person receives the Holy Spirit (is regenerated). The Holy Spirit regenerates the conscience so a person can understand sin (convict)
3)The person's sins are remitted through Christ and repentance is granted by God (The person is already saved through faith in Christ's atonement)
4) The person can be baptized through the Grace of God.
YOUR list almost sounds Catholic except the actual Sacrament of Baptism would come first.
If I am correct Catholic Order of Salvation is:
1) Baptism
2) Being instructed in the Faith (convicted by the Holy Spirit)
3) repentance
4) confession
5) Absolution (you would say salvation)
I am not certain if this is Catholic, just my meager understanding.
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