>It seems to me that the time for an individual to struggle with origins issues
>is after he becomes a Christian, when he has the help of the Holy Spirit in
>understanding what Scripture says. Based on my experience, contrasted with
>that of equally committed Christian brothers who have come down on the
>opposite side of the origins issue, I don't think the Holy Spirit is going
>to categorically solve the origins problem for him. What I would hope for
>would be that the Holy Spirit would lead him to understand that the main
>issues in Scripture are far more crucial than the _mechanics_ of how God
>goes about developing life.
Scripture speaks to this very thing in 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 15
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who
is from God, that we might know the things freely given us by God,
which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in
those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual
words...
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for
they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because
they are spiritually appraised."
The Holy Spirit will first and foremost call one to salvation, and
after that impart a measure of discernment in other areas as He wills
it.
Paul Durham