Creatures which appear to be products of sin what do do with them?

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Some creatures, like spiders and other insects seem to only appear in nature when nature is not well taken care of. For example if you don’t clean your house, clothes, yourself, there are all kinds of small creatures with will appear out of that.
If there were cleaness, or a perfect garden, those creatures would not exist. So they seem to be perhaps what someone in a different thread called ‘elements of a plague’, or a punishment.

Since they are creatures of God, and perhaps God creates them to teach us a lesson, Is it okay to kill them, or should we chase them away and clean up so that they won’t come back, and let God deal with their deaths. I say this because, sometimes we think killing them is the solutions, and we can keep uncleaness while keeping them out by various way like using chemicals. However, respecting them, could focus us to removing the reason of their being there instead of removing them.

What do you think?
 
I think it is a huge stretch to blame the existence of critters on poor housekeeping, and an even further leap to call them products of sin. btw if poor housekeeping is a sin I am in deep trouble:eek:
 
It’s not a sin to have a messy house or an unkempt garden. The creatures exist regardless, they are just more inclined to move in under certain conditions.

It’s perfectly ok to kill spiders, insects and other household/garden pests.
 
Frere said:
Some creatures, like spiders and other insects seem to only appear in nature when nature is not well taken care of.
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Not always true.

We need insects, in many cases. Some insects serve a purpose, whether it is in helping pollinate plants, providing food for other creatures, eating other more harmful creatures (praying mantis for example), etc. Spiders help keep the population in control by eating them.

The front of my house has a light. When I turn the outside light on at night when my kids are gone, many insects are attracted to the light. So spiders then come near my front door for a quick and easy meal. So in the morning, I sweep and/or spray the outside with water to eliminate the webs from the night before. If there happens to be a spider there, bye-bye. Any insects or spiders that enter my home are immediately killed (usually by my cats!). Paper wasp nests on my house are sprayed with poison and then burned.

I feel no guilt, nor should I.
 
Each such species had/has a legitimate place in nature. Black rats were/are native to the forests of Asia, house mice to wilderness areas in many parts of the world (as different subspecies). The cockroach species we are most familiar with came from Africa, where they lived under logs and such. The common house spider, sometimes misleadingly called “daddy long-legs” (as opposed to the non-webweaving arachnid of that name), was originally a cave spider before they moved into our homes.

Each of these species have their good, legitimate places in nature. It’s only when they get into the wrong place or spread disease that they become physical evils. It’s not their fault of course, it’s ours or our ancestors’, but the fact remains that they often become physical evils. As evils, it is not wrong, but actually a very right and noble thing to combat them, even kill them if need be. In doing so we redress a disorder introduced into creation by human sin, and thus bring the universe just a tiny bit closer to God’s ordaining will for it.

Of course, God does allow us to suffer the results of our sins, and physical evils, including creepy crawlies in our homes, can be an example of this. But generally it’s not our task to take such temporal punishment upon ourselves (there is such a thing as penance of course, but we need prudence in discerning what an appropriate penance is). Leave any punishment by pests up to God’s providence, and also realize when that same providence has given you the means, and perhaps the obligation, to prevent or actively combat such evils.
 
Oh yeah…mice! I had mice in my house a few years ago in the winter. My unfinished basement provided great hiding spots among the boxes, behind the freezer, etc.

I trapped a few and then locked the cats in the basement until eradication occurred.

The problem was where the cable for the TV entered the house had been enlarged enough to allow mice to squeeze in. Plugged the hole, collected the decapitated mice, problem solved!
 
The critters reproduce in the MILLIONS.

So you had better get them under control in your house!

Out in the swamps and woods, yeah, they can have their fun … they are predators AND prey.

But in the house? No. The mice eat holes in the organ works in church.

Nope.
 
I have, however, always wondered what God had in mind when He created carpenter ants . . . . .
 
In Genesis, God gave us dominion over all the plants and animals. They are ours to make use of. We are stewards of his creation just as we are of our own time, money, and talents and should make use or disuse of them wisely.
 
**I have heard that if it weren’t for the beneficial insects, the bad insects would cause massive starvation from eating the world’s food.

I just try to be kind to God’s creatures, big or tiny, pretty or ugly.**
 
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