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Originally Posted by Medusa99
I'm not a student of Christianity by any means, but Catholicism is the only church I know of that says evolution exists, although not in men? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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The UCC has a position affirming evolution...i'm pretty sure others do too.
A quick google, and i have this.
ELCA, UCC, Anglican, PC USA, Catholic, Methodist.
That's a pretty big chunk of the mainlines.
Personally, i'm baptist, and believe evolution to be the most compelling scientific explanation of how life originated on the planet.
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Originally Posted by hoosier52
Some Christians would indeed condemn these people on the basis that they havne't accepted Jesus Christ and been born again;
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Yes, but. Yes, the bible is clear that we have moral choices, and can be condemned on the basis of those. But. God is a God of grace and mercy. I have rebelled, but fallen short even in that. God's grace has been more than sufficient to bring me back to God. Even as i sin in this life, i am brought again to repentance and to healing mercy. The mercy, the grace has been wilder, freer, and greater than i had ever imagined.
I don't know the fate of souls. But i do know about the mercy, and if it is that mercy that cares for us at our last breath, then we have a whole lot to hope for.