For context, my dad is a pastor of many years (20+ at this point), and our family grew up very conservative (think Bible belt conservative where they don’t believe in climate change or vaccines).
I thought like this as well because you are a function of your environment. My views started to shift after taking AP Bio in high school and now as a senior in biology at university.
I had to tackle what evolution and all these new sciences were teaching me and how they intermeshed with my preconceived notions of Christianity. Now I have very different views than my family: Adam and Eve sinned and caused spiritual death, not physical death (because death is a natural process); God created the earth through natural processes that we can study instead of magic or supernatural abilities (i.e., like simply talking the universe into existence in 6 literal days); and that God created all of life through evolutionary processes instead of making a clay sculpture of a human and breathing on it.
How do I tell my family that what I believe isn’t crazy and that these beliefs will send me to hell? I’m scared I might get in trouble or be shunned if I keep believing what I believe. They think that college is just liberal indoctrination and that what I believe are lies made up by crazy people.
I don’t have the time to study theology and science to a degree where I can explain it simply to my parents, and even if I could, I doubt they would believe it because they think that their visions from God outweigh the years of study that people do in their PHDs. 