The Church and Salvation
5/7/202626 min
The Reformation brought a needed retrieval of the Bible's teaching on salvation. Today, R.C. Sproul outlines the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on this cardinal doctrine and shows why we must understand where we disagree.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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First 90 secondsR. C. Sproul· Guest0:00
I remember having a person tell me that they had been taught in their Catholic parochial school as a part of a matter of course of their teaching that anyone who was a Protestant could not go to heaven, that you must be within the Roman Catholic Church in order to go to heaven, and I had my friends tell me that.
Speaker 1· Host0:20
[music] When it comes to spending eternity with God, we don't want to have the wrong information. What is required of us, and who has the authority to tell us? In the sixteenth century, Martin Luther challenged the Roman Catholic Church, and today R.C. Sproul tackles one of the most important points of contention then and now. So let's join R.C.
R. C. Sproul· Guest0:48
Our topic in this session will be the church and salvation. Notice that I have not titled this lecture merely The Doctrine of the Church, nor have I titled it The Doctrine of Salvation. But we're looking at a very narrow concept of Roman Catholic ecclesiology, that is, the relationship of the church to salvation, so that we're considering not only ecclesiology, which is the doctrine of the church, but also soteriology.