In Catholicism, the requirements for even relative “assurance” of salvation are saving faith, loyal membership in the Church, obedience to the commandments, love of God and neighbor, and participation in the sacraments of the Eucharist, penance, and so on—plus prayer, good works, indulgences and, last but certainly not least, persevering in God’s grace until death and, at the point of death, dying in the right condition.7 This is not the assurance that God declares for believers in Scripture: Since