I think the thing for me (and I have been reading here and there), is that a God that uses Evolution, is a God that does less Himself.
Why would I want less than God's best now? When I can have God now and His best from now until later?
I contend God's best is part of what He gives us as humans, anyway (for now and later, both).
Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son: the moral was you can have all you are due upfront, but once you've wasted it and have nothing, you basically have to come crawling back to God - there will never be a time when God will not let you have what you want, as long as it is fundamentally good.
Uh, no, it's not a God that does less in the slightest, it's actually a God that does more. Speaking is effortless, working on something deliberately takes effort and care. It's a more farsighted God, seeing things in long term with infinite wisdom, rather than a short term instant impulse. Like I pointed out earlier. You were not hand shaped by God. You were born by a biological process that started with your parents having sex.
Does that mean God didn't create you? Not at all. Who created those biological processes in the first place, who designed them?
In Genesis 2:21-22, God describes performing anasthesia, surgery, taking out a bone that is one of your major sources of active bone marrow in an adult, the bones that produce all your new blood cells, laden with stem cells, a good source to grow another person from, and he grew her from those stem cells. He didn't speak her into being from nothing, is that a God that does less?
God's Word was not inately in our minds memorized from the day we were born, it was written down by men inspired by the Holy Spirit, and we have to read it, is that a God that does less?
God let man sin, corrupt his entire very good creation, sent down His only begotten Son to redeem sinners, allows Satan to run wild until He comes down, takes away His elect, and then throws Satan and the antichrist into the bottomless pit, then He rules the world for 1000 years, LETS SATAN BACK OUT ONE LAST TIME, then finally destroys him, destroys the entire planet (maybe the entire universe, but the planet for sure), then remakes it, finally perfect and free of sin.
Is that a God that does less? Why isn't creation perfect NOW? We don't have God's best now, we are promised we will have God's best in His time.
We are talking about an eternal being a being outside of time. Instants, thousands of years, inconsequential in the long run. It's a being that could have poofed Moses and all the Israelites out of Egypt put them straight in the promised land and purged all the Canaanites in the blink of an eye. But He didn't. They walked and wandered in the wilderness. God could have spoken everything into being out of nothing. Some things He did, some things He did not. We don't know why He chose to make different things in different ways, we can ask Him face to face someday, isn't that part of the promise?
