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Questions / Salvation, heaven and hell

How are we saved?

Church teaching

Answered on video by Ascension Presents

Video: What You Need to Be Saved (Faith vs. Works), Ascension Presents, published Aug 2, 2023. Checked 10 October 2026. Loads from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) only when you press play. Watch on YouTube

In short: By God’s grace, received through faith and Baptism, and it shows up in how you love. CCC 1987 CCC 1992 CCC 1996

The answer, in writing

Church teaching

The grace of the Holy Spirit justifies us: it cleanses us from sin and gives us “the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ” and through Baptism. CCC 1987

Justification was merited for us by Christ’s Passion and is given in Baptism, the sacrament of faith. CCC 1992

It comes from God’s grace, His free and undeserved help. CCC 1996

Our words

Jesus does the saving. We say yes to Him, and keep saying yes, and that yes shows up in how we love.

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Sources on this page

How we know · 3 Catechism paragraphs
  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 1987, 1992, 1996 (official text on vatican.va).

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