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To: pby
I am not aware of a single Christian denomination that takes the doctrinal position that their church only makes up the "universal church" (with only its members going to heaven)...Citations please

They're too polite for that. Especially in the US that (eventually) learned to accept other denominations without running them out of town and taking their land. But all denominations will tell you the faults of the others. The implication being that they are *correct*, and the others are wrong.

Your former preacher, your sainted grandmother, your former Southern Baptist church, 70's creation movement and etc...Nice anecdotal evidence. You seem to have a lot of that (and that only)!

I was there, and I witnessed what I witnessed. The Southern Baptist Church was(is?) the biggest non-Catholic denomination in America. And I was specifically taught that Genesis and evolution were compatible while I was at a church retreat. Southern Baptists were a little loose on doctrine, but I doubt that my experience was unique. And I do not remember any reference, in any church, of up to 5000 people, the message being preached that evolution was false, and a six day creation was true.

I believed that Genesis and evolution were compatible, even to the extent of writing a report on the possible scenarios of abiogensis while in High School in 1972. I *would* have remembered any such a sermon against that concept, had I ever heard it.

As of the time I stopped attending church when my ex-wife ran off with a guy she met there in 1979, I NEVER heard such a sermon.

They just "speak ill" of poor evolutionary assumptions made in the name of science and also of persons, like yourself, who use those assumptions to attack Christianity.

Interesting wording. "poor evolutionary assumptions made in the name of science". As if you speak for science. And as for "attacks on Christianity", I haven't witnessed any such thing from "science", accept in response to the attacks by creationists on evolution. In general, Scientists leave religion alone, accept when provoked.

I may be full of ancedotal evidence. And you don't have to believe it. But that doesn't make you any less wrong.

986 posted on 08/02/2005 5:00:13 PM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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To: narby

We have had devout Baptist creos post that their position is not in agreement with their church or their pastor in regards to acceptance of evolution but more in line with the posting of those on the web that they send $59.95 to for the DVD.


988 posted on 08/02/2005 5:04:38 PM PDT by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: narby
As of the time I stopped attending church when my ex-wife ran off with a guy she met there in 1979...

After my SECOND ex-wife ran off with someone, I started to church!


The Lord has been showing me for a long time the problems I had, and with His Grace and help, I hope I'm a different person today.

1,206 posted on 08/03/2005 7:06:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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