Can A Catholic Be Saved If They Truly Believe In Jesus?

Q: Can a Catholic be saved if I believe in and accept Jesus as my Savior? Would I need to be baptized again?

A: Yes, you should be baptized again. I don't know if I would say you have to be, but you should be baptized again. I would not regard your Roman Catholic baptism as a valid baptism. There was zero faith on your part accompanying it. I don't think that we can have faith on behalf of somebody else in baptism.

Absolutely, a Roman Catholic can put their trust in Jesus. There's a tendency in some circles in the Roman Catholic Church to put your trust in the church, in tradition, in Mary, and the saints. If somebody resists those temptations and says, 'No, I'm putting my trust in Jesus,' then a person in the Roman Catholic Church can be saved.

The critical issue is Jesus. Is the Jesus of Roman Catholicism the same as the Jesus of Protestants? I would say yes. The Roman Catholic Church does pretty well on theological issues, especially regarding the nature of God, the Trinity, and Christology. The problem with Roman Catholicism is not that they don't have a biblical Jesus; it's the things they add to it that obscure a biblical understanding of Jesus.