130: How do we get to Heaven? Wrong Answers for Catholics [Podcast]

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Dr. Taylor Marshall

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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I recently asked my children in evening devotions: “How do we get to Heaven?” Their answer was “Going to confession.” I didn’t really like this answer… While confession is a necessary sacrament for human salvation, I didn’t like their answer for a few reasons. It has do with highlighting the source of salvation (Christ) and the instrumentality of salvation (His sacraments). In this podcast I explain the situation and why there’s a better answer to “How do we get to Heaven?” If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. If you find this podcast episode helpful, please share this podcast on Facebook. Announcements: * The podcast is now on my channel on Youtube.com * The complete Sword and Serpent Trilogy is now published, including the the third Book: Storm of Fire and Blood. * Download the Study Guide at: http://swordandserpent.com * New classes at New Saint Thomas Institute. We have just begun our New Testament Studies curriculum. Please visit: newsaintthomas.com for more details. I’d love to read your feedback: While you listen to today’s podcast, would you please take 30 seconds to write a review? Please click here to Rate this Podcast! Please Share Your Feedback: POPULARITY: 1,448,642 downloads on iTunes as of today. SHOUT OUTS: A huge “shout out” to all 520 (!) of you who wrote amazing 5-star reviews at iTunes. Please rate this podcast by clicking here. From there you can leave a review. I appreciate you for this! Thank you! Subscribe to This Weekly Podcast: Apple/Mac Users: Please subscribe via iTunes by clicking here and then clicking on “View in iTunes.” Android Users: For listening to The Taylor Marshall Show on Android devices (free) using the Stitcher app. Android Users can also listen to the show with: Android Beyond Pod app from the Google Play Store. Android Pocketcasts app. Our you can listen/watch to the Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So last night at Rosary I asked my children, how do we get to heaven?
0:10.7	And they replied, go to confession. if you commit a mortal sin go to confession
0:17.7	That's how you get to heaven and I answered them, technically, instrumentally correct, but formally incorrect.
0:30.0	That's not how we get to heaven. It's a means, but it's not the way. And I think this can be an error in our Catholic teaching, in our
0:43.0	sacramental theology that we focus on the instruments
0:48.0	that Jesus Christ,
0:50.0	second person in the Trinity instituted
0:52.0	for our salvation,
0:55.0	but not on what Thomas Aquinas would call the formal cause,
0:59.0	and also the final cause.
1:02.0	So just a word about the sacraments. The sacraments were
1:04.9	instituted by our Lord not to restrict grace but to spread grace around. So if you
1:11.3	think about a hose attached to your house, the seven
1:15.3	sacraments are not seven little slits in the hose that squirt out streams of
1:21.4	water. Rather, the seven sacraments are like seven sprinkler heads
1:26.3	that are attached to the water source and they just spray and spread water in every direction
1:31.4	and try to get everything wet so that all things in need of that
1:36.7	water live and thrive. So that's the seven sacraments. They're instruments that Jesus uses to spread around
1:45.4	grace not to restrict grace to spread around grace and I told the kids no the
1:50.8	the way you go to heaven how you go to heaven is our Lord Jesus
1:56.0	Christ just as we say in the Creed the Apostles Creed at the Rosary he came
2:02.0	down from heaven, was incarnate in the womb of the Immaculate Mary, lived a perfect life,
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