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No, absolutely not. The Devil "believes" in God a lot more than you do - and it does him no good, he is still in hell for all eternity. Every single person in hell believes in God and they are most obviously not saved.

The problem that you have to confront is that when Protestant "Christians" use the word saved they are actually talking about three different things:


1) Redemption - every single person who ever lived has been redeemed by Our Blessed Lord's sacrifice of Himself on the cross.


2) Justification - this is what we are in the process of during our entire lives. Justification involves applying the redemption that Our Blessed Lord has accomplished and becoming perfect. We are all called to be perfect by the time we die. If we fail in this, but are still in a state of grace when we die, then there is a state where people are purified in order to enter heaven.


3) Salvation - this happens ONLY after you have died and are judged. It is an instantaneous thing, the instant you die you stand before the Almighty and realize if you actually loved God enough in this life to follow Him or not; and you cast yourself into hell, purgatory, or heaven, depending on how you lived your life. The final state (heaven and hell are both final states, purgatory is just that cleansing for those who died imperfect but in the love of God; the final state of heaven {or purgatory if you are not yet perfect}) is salvation; its alternative is damnation.


We know that salvation is not accomplished in this life because The Bible explains this, and the Church teaches it: justification is a process that occupies our entire lives, then comes judgment and THEN comes salvation or damnation. People who believe that they are "saved" here in this life are either talking about redemption or they are sinning fatally and eternally through the sin of presumption- which is the sin which says that you can know what your final destination is.


You may only have a firm hope - as the Bible explains - but you must "work out your salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12) and never presumptuously believe that you are already saved.

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