#11049 No Salvation Outside the Church? - Michael Lofton

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

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Questions Covered: 13:42 – What does salvation look like for people that have left the Church due to the sex abuse scandal? Good question 20:31 – Jesus says he is the way, the truth and the life. Catholics say the Catholic Church is the way. Is this contradictory? 24:20 – Paul says those who call in the name of the Lord will be saved. That which you are proclaiming is false. 34:45 – Can you give me 3 of the best reasons to be Catholic and not Orthodox? 38:18 – I’m Anglican and faithful. Is your Church saying that I can’t have salvation? 45:47 – How do we practically communicate this teaching to ecumenical groups? 48:40 – What are your thoughts on the movie Silence and the question on salvation in it? 50:33 – Are there any documents prior to the 60’s that show the caveats regarding salvation that we hear about today? …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Cavigants' Live. I'm Sy Keltger host and it's a Friday afternoon.
0:20.5	We've got a great Friday show for you. Second hour Jimmy's here and we'll do a little
0:24.2	bonus. We'll do this lately. The second hour on Fridays is doing a little bonus open
0:27.8	forum. So you know why? Because so many people call, they don't get through or they get through
0:32.6	and we don't get to them. So we just throw another hour on the schedule and that'll be second
0:38.1	hour Jimmy will be here. So you can ask Jimmy whatever you want. First hour our good friend Michael
0:41.9	Lofton is here. Someone who I have always enjoyed being affiliated with and we're going to talk about
0:49.2	Michael does reason in theology and you probably go to the reason in theology website. He's got a new
0:54.8	e-book out which are coming out which I want to talk to him on a minute. But how about this?
1:00.8	You know we all know there's this teaching of the Catholic Church that outside the church.
1:06.7	There's no salvation. And that that's not a teaching that has been reformed out of existence
1:12.4	or something. That's the teaching of the Catholic Church. What does that mean? What are we
1:16.5	saying when we say that? I know that that gives people anxiety. It also sometimes gives people
1:21.2	a sense of triumphalism. Neither of which are the appropriate response to a church doctrine.
1:26.8	So what does it mean? Outside the church there is no salvation. Michael Lofton, thank you for being
1:31.6	with us. Hey, so thanks for having me back on. It's an honor. Let me tell you if you want to ask
1:36.5	Michael about this about what this doctrine means about what its implications are and whatever
1:40.8	you'd like to ask about it, 888-318-788-4. Maybe you are not a Catholic and you want to know what does
1:46.5	this doctrine say about you from the Catholic point of view? 888-318-788-4. Maybe you're a Catholic.
1:53.6	And most of us Catholics have lots of friends and family members who are not members of the Catholic
1:59.8	Church. What does it mean for them? 888-318-788-4. Before, I do want to ask you about the book coming
2:07.4	out because I'm anxious to read it. Tell us about this new, it's called, I'll give you the title,
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