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DoxieMama
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If someone going through RCIA decides Catholicism is not for them, are they destined for Hell? What constitutes one having vincible versus invincible ignorance? 
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Ron_Conte
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Deliberately rejecting the Catholic Faith is objectively a grave sin. However, to be condemned to Hell a person must die unrepentant from actual mortal sin. The sin must be grave AND include full knowledge of the grave immorality of the act and full deliberation (full consent) in committing the act.If someone going through RCIA decides Catholicism is not for them, are they destined for Hell? What constitutes one having vincible versus invincible ignorance?
A person could reject the Catholic Faith without full knowledge, and so their sin would not be an actual mortal sin. Because we live in a complex sinful world, in which truth is obscured by the sins of society, of other persons, and our own concupiscence, a person can often commit an objectively immoral act, without full knowledge of its grave immorality. Such a person would not be sent to Hell for that sin.
Invincible ignorance means that the person was not able to realize that the act is sinful. However, such ignorance is often a matter of degrees. There may be some degree of realization and culpability, but not to the extent of an actual mortal sin.
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aragonjohn1
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Wilful, proceeding from the will. It is requisite that the thing be an effect of the will consequent upon actual knowledge, either formal or virtual, in the rational agent. It is not quite the same as free; for a free act supposes self-determination proceeding from an agent capable, at the time, of determining himself or not at his choice. However, as every specific voluntary act in this life is also free (except those rare will-impulses, when man is swept to sudden action without time to perceive in non-action the element of good requisite for determination not to act) the moralist commonly uses the terms voluntary and free interchangeably. A thing may be voluntary in itself, as when in its own proper concept it falls under the efficacious determination of the agent, or voluntary in something else, as in its cause. Voluntary in cause requires foreknowledge of the effect, at least virtual, viz. under a general concept of effects to follow; and production thereof by virtue of the will’s efficiency exercised in the willing of its cause.If someone going through RCIA decides Catholicism is not for them, are they destined for Hell? What constitutes one having vincible versus invincible ignorance?
ROMANS 5:12-21 (NIV) – Therefore, just as SIN entered the world THROUGH ONE MAN [Adam], and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, BECAUSE ALL SINNED [Latin Vulgate reads -in quo omnes peccaverunt-] (verse 12) [translated: “IN WHOM all have sinned”] …Consequently, just as the result of ONE TRESPASS was condemnation for ALL MEN, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the ONE MAN [Adam] the many [all] were MADE SINNERS, so also through the obedience of the one man [Christ] the many [all] will be made righteous. (verses 18-19)
(2) 1 Corinthians 15:21f – in Adam all die
1 CORINTHIANS 15:21-22 (NIV) – For since death came through A MAN [Adam], the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man [Christ]. For as IN ADAM ALL DIE, so in Christ all will be made alive.
(3) Eph 2:1-3 – dead in sin…by nature children of wrath
WISDOM 1:12-13; 2:23-24; SIRACH 25:24 (RSV-CE) – Do not invite death by the error of your life, nor bring on destruction by the works of your hands; because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living…for God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it…From A WOMAN [Eve] SIN had its beginning, and because of HER WE ALL DIE.
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triumphguy
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No.If someone going through RCIA decides Catholicism is not for them, are they destined for Hell? What constitutes one having vincible versus invincible ignorance?
The RCIA will be part of the journey for them.
We don’t know where that journey will take them.
Imagine the consequences if the RCIA director started the program with this introduction:
*Dear atheists, agnostics, heathens, pagans and godless protestants, Tonight is your first meeting. The Catholic Church is the one true Church. If you choose to reject the Church at any point during RCIA and do not complete the program you will go to Hell, since you now know that the Catholic Church is the one, true Church. *
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