When we lived in North Carolina a minister came to my door and asked me if I was saved. I ask him how to do it. He said, "Confess Jesus and you will be saved". So I bore my testimony of Jesus Christ to him and told him I was sure that I knew more surely than him that Jesus was the Christ. He asked me if I truly meant it. It told him I had a witness of Jesus Christ in my soul like fire. So he then declared me to be saved. I then asked him what would happen if I committed adultery tomorrow. He said I would still be saved and go to heaven. I asked him what would happen if I robbed a bank and killed someone doing it. He said, (his exact words), "No matter brother, you are saved now and you will go to heaven no matter what you do." I then asked him the $64,000 question. I asked him what would happen to me if I was a member of the Mormon Church. He looked at me with a startled and glaring look of anger. Then he asked me, "Are you a Mormon?". I told him I was. Then he said,"If you are a Mormon you will go to hell. You can not be saved if you are a Mormon!"

That has always amazed me. I simply confessed Jesus and that was enough. I was saved and would go to heaven even if I committed murder. But to be a member a Christian Church that teaches me to not smoke, drink, or swear; to be absolutely faithful to my wife and make my family the most important thing in my life; to give 10% of all I earn to help build up Christ's kingdom here on the earth; to strive with all my heart to be honest in all my dealings; to keep the Sabbath Day holy as best I could and live all the commandments as much is mortally possible... AND I AM GOING TO HELL FOR IT????

Well that made me very curious about being "SAVED" or "BORN AGAIN" and what the consistent teaching of the churches was. So I have for a long time wanted to ask maybe as many as 100 people of all different religions what they felt the true teaching on "BEING SAVED" was according to their interpretation of the Bible. I have never had time to do it until now. But at least here is a start. I have written to several ministers and also posted on many bulletin boards. Here are some of the replies I have received back:

If you would like to add your belief on being "SAVED" to this page I welcome your response. I may warn you however that I will not publish any letters that are BASHING any other church (and I have received several). I will not publish anything that is debasing or not consistent with the spirit and teachings of the Bible (as you believe them).

If you would like to give me your opinion on this subject, I would be glad to include it according to the same rules of appropriateness as above stated.

Thanks to all of you for your contributions.

NOTE: I will from here on assume that anyone who sends me a reply is giving me permission to also post that reply. Before I have written back to each person asking if I could post the reply. I will just post any appropriate replies that I receive from here on.