Thanks for your reply...
Tho you may not have seen those who delight in the damnation of others, because of their support of evolution, I can assure you that it does occur...perhaps, and I could be wrong about this, it does not occur as often as it used to, because the posters who have done so, have been singled out for having acted in such a way...but it still continues to happen on these threads...
You say, that you were a believer in evolution, but that as you learned more about God, the more you came to the conclusion, that evolution was not compatible with God...and thats fine...but for many, having a firm belief in God, and in Christ does not bring about an incompatiblity with God....I dont really know, what brings one person to one conclusion, and another person to another conclusion, but there we have it...
Yes, indeed, if one reads the Bible, it is 'sin' which leads to damnation, and as you state, we all sin...
However, sometimes I get the feeling that those of us who support evolution, are sometimes seen by many, as committing a 'greater sin', by supporting evolution...
On these threads, there seems to be very few things that can be considered as 'sinful', as supporting evolution...
If people do mock God, that is a separate issue from supporting evolution...they are not the same issue...
On the matter of creation...no one knows the HOW of creation...I have asked this time and again, yet have never received an answer, but of course, I know, this is because the Bible does not give the answer...Did God speak Creation into existence?...Did He think it into existence?...Did He have a vision materialize?...I mean, no one can tell me HOW exactly God did create...
Many prefer to believe that God created evolution and used it to create...that may not be to everyones liking, and yet, since the Bible does not give the HOW of creation, we dont really know...
I prefer to believe God's word. The foundation of the Judeo/Christian religion is the Ten Commandments. Moses went up on the mountain and God wrote the Ten Commandments with his own hand. Included in what was written are these words:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11 KJV)
That doesn't leave a lot of room for evolutionary theory. We can twist the words to mean practically nothing, but twisting the ten commandments is a good way to twist yourself into a bad position. God says he did it in six days. Everything. And in Genesis chapter one the Bible states that God created everything after its own kind. He didn't let everything evolve from one kind to another. You really have to twist the meanings of the words to get that from Genesis.
It may seem impossible that God created the heavens and the earth and all that in them is in 6 days. But he said he did. So we can believe God or we can choose to not believe. But he wrote it with his own hand. That is something we really need to ponder before we go off and claim that he didn't do it.
Abraham believed God and it was accounted unto him as righteousness. Ask yourself, do you believe God?