Saved ONLY by faith in Jesus?

The most reasonable answer to this IMHO, is the Catholic one. All who are saved are saved through Christ and Christ alone. However, we all depend on his mercy and cannot know in advance is judgments. Members of non-Christian religions though they may not recognise him in this life as the Savior, may still be saved through Christ's free exercise of his mercy. We cannot bind God or box him in. Who are we to say what he can and cannot do with his love. The Catholic Church only names a few who are known to be saved (saints--about 1000 in history). The Church never attempts to name a person in hell no matter what they did in their life. There are means to know of people in heaven--miracles, etc. but none for knowing who is in hell. Not even their religion alone can bind God's mercy.

Good answer! I'm not a Catholic, but I definitely feel that this is the answer Christians should give, instead of dogmatically claiming that they are automatically saved without question, and that everyone else is comdemned.

========== In Reply To ========== The most reasonable answer to this IMHO, is the Catholic one. All who are saved are saved through Christ and Christ alone. However, we all depend on his mercy and cannot know in advance is judgments. Members of non-Christian religions though they may not recognise him in this life as the Savior, may still be saved through Christ's free exercise of his mercy. We cannot bind God or box him in. Who are we to say what he can and cannot do with his love. The Catholic Church only names a few who are known to be saved (saints--about 1000 in history). The Church never attempts to name a person in hell no matter what they did in their life. There are means to know of people in heaven--miracles, etc. but none for knowing who is in hell. Not even their religion alone can bind God's mercy.

Dear Predator, my mother is Catholic and we grew up in the Catholic Church (even though I later converted to my father's religion of Judaism) and it seem to me, from my experience with other (non Catholic) Christians that Catholics tend to be the most intellectual and tolerant of other faith of all the Christian sects. Maybe the failure of the Inquisition or simply existing for two thousand years has taught them something.