If it is an objective reality that evolution is the way God made it, then you are questioning God for why all that death to arrive at Adam. The Bible never says there was no death before Adam, or that it was just a short time before Adam.
So animals experienced physical death because Adam sinned? Are you sure that was the case? Because from archeology and paleontology we see death has a long history, way before man appears.
Well according to some private revelations I read, she did die, because she wanted to go through the portal of death just like everybody has to go through.
As I have been saying, evolution is not a new idea. Initially, Satan introduced the lie of evolution through false religion (paganism). But in the 19th century he introduced via a new medium - science (although it is really quasi-religious pseudo-science).
… only a few billions years worth.
The Bible says all creatures were created as vegetarians. How and why did many of them become carnivores?
God gave us the Bible and a description of creation for a reason. It’s not an irrelevance.
It’s possible there was a creation that existed before the Adamic creation, which was destroyed (probably by a global flood (see Genesis 1:2)). This may account for what science has discovered deep in the earth (assuming scientists honestly and objectively interpret the evidence, which is not necessarily so).
Perhaps creation from eternity where the past and present, this entire universe comes into being with the original sin involving the tree of knowledge and that of eternal life, at the Centre of creation, where we are to be one in Christ - the cross and the resurrection - one eternal moment ripped apart in time, here and now in our choices to love or not, this journey back to God.
That’s a big source of the emptiness in atheism - no one to thank, or to ask, to share our innermost feelings, our happiness, shame and guilt.
A life lived for oneself, cannot but end swallowed by oblivion, its transient and illusory satisfactions disappearing with the end of one’s presence within the flux of time. So, to be lived in the moment is all that one will enjoy. And, when the interest wanes, when the engagement is with pain alone, the final surrender to death being all that is left, let it be quick rather than the gradual decline into confusion, with little if any capacity to move, clean and feed oneself.
First of all, I was not claiming that Adam mated with any other pre-existing animals.
Are you referring to Genesis 1:29-30?
It says God gave them plants, doesn’t mean they ate the plants, or that they ate only the plants. It doesn’t mean the animals started eating animals after Adam sinned, or anything of the like.
Okay, so Gen 1:2 says
So it was formless, without any form whatsoever, yet animals could inhabit it? That doesn’t make sense. The only other thing existing at Gen 1:2 is “water” which may not be H20 exactly. Animals weren’t even created yet, and neither was any form for them to live on, and the dinosaurs most definitely lived on land.
