#12582 How Can Non-Catholics Be Saved If Jesus is the Only Mediator? - Luke Lancaster
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
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“How Can Non-Catholics Be Saved If Jesus is the Only Mediator?” This question opens a discussion on the relationship between faith, works, and salvation, addressing concerns about Ephesians 2:8-9 and its compatibility with Catholic teaching. Other topics include the nature of Marian devotion and its perceived paganism, as well as the implications of Vatican II on salvation for non-Catholics.
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Questions Covered:
- 09:41 – Seems to me that Marian devotion is paganism, like it’s worship. It’s one of the reasons why I left the Church. How would you respond to that objection?
- 21:42 – It always bothered me that God gave Bathsheba an abortion — why would God do that?
- 29:32 – According to Vatican II a non-Catholic can be saved. That seems to contradict Jesus’ teaching that nobody comes to the Father except through him.
- 37:02 – Why do we have Holy Days of Obligation?
- 46:46 – After Peter died, would the new bishop or Rome have authority over the still living apostles, such as John?
- 50:52 – Is it better to think of works in terms of losing our salvation through mortal sins of omission?
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| 0:47.1 | on Catholic Answers Live is Luke Lancaster teaches high school religion in Florida, but is a rising apologist on YouTube, |
| 0:59.0 | and we are very, very, and he's been writing for Catholic Cancer's Magazine online now for quite a number of years, |
| 1:06.6 | and we're really happy to have him on the live show here and throw him to the lions here and see how he does with the radio apologetics. |
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| 1:23.1 | Yes, thank you. |
| 1:23.9 | It's a joy to be with you and ready to have some fun. |
| 1:26.4 | Throw some stuff at me. |
| 1:32.6 | No, absolutely we are. And in fact, I've been instructed by the great Luke Bender to get straight to the questions. |
| 1:41.6 | Yes, he said get straight. So I do want to, okay, well, actually, no, Luke Bender, there's stuff I have to do first. |
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| 1:58.6 | Our topic this second hour is Catholicism versus the Bible. |
| 2:20.4 | Now, if you're a Catholic, you're thinking, well, I don't see what the tension is here. How could Catholicism possibly be opposed to the Bible? But we do hear common objections from our, from, from Protestants, for example, or separated brethren, that, uh, there are passages in the Bible that directly, uh, contradict, uh, passages, or rather teachings of, of the Catholic |
| 2:29.3 | church and vice versa. |
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