Live beings constantly feeding on each other

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Why did God create a world in which most creatures must painfully and merciless eat each other in order to survive?

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To an ant or lion, I don’t think they would see it as merciless. It’s just another day on Earth to them. Why did God do it? I’m not sure. You’ll have to ask him yourself.
 
Simply put, fresh food has been deemed to be the best. “Cruel” and “merciless” are human constructs - skewed viewpoints from a flawed and incomplete perspective.

For man or animal to live, something else must die.
 
Mother Nature isn’t a sentient being which makes moral choices, and any order we see in nature is a projection of our own need to see order in what we look at. The animal kingdom isn’t a kingdom, just some millions of species doing their best to survive long enough to reproduce. They do whatever it takes to get that done, or die trying. Without feeding on each other, an ecosystem could not reach equilibrium.
 
On earth as above.
To teach us there are beings who are hunting others. In physical world they are hunting bodies, in spiritual they are hunting souls. So learn and be careful.
 
Thank you all for your answers. Actually I just find a good answer to this question in the IX chapter of C. S. Lewis book “The Problem of Pain”.
An extract:
“The intrinsic evil of the
animal world lies in the fact that animals, or some animals, live by destroying each other. That plants do the same I will not admit to be an evil. The Satanic corruption of the beasts would therefore be analogous, in one respect, with the Satanic corruption of man.”
 
A) After the flood in Genesis there is a line that gives the implication that until that point no human or animal ate meat, but at this point it is permitted in hoping that humans would be less violent.
B) Animals are not moral agents, they can’t choose something “because it’s good” or choose not to do something “because it’s evil”.
C) Because that is the way of life, and it keeps populations from overpopulating and wrecking an ecosystem
D) Above all, because he did.
 
SebastianTorres said:
Why did God create a world in which most creatures must painfully and merciless eat each other in order to survive?
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Actually, I’m guessing that being killed by a predator is the least painful way that most creatures can die, given that the alternatives are disease, exposure and starvation.
 
SebastianTorres said:
“The intrinsic evil of the
animal world lies in the fact that animals, or some animals, live by destroying each other. That plants do the same I will not admit to be an evil. The Satanic corruption of the beasts would therefore be analogous, in one respect, with the Satanic corruption of man.”
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I agree, it is all a consequence of the Fall. Interestingly, in the Garden man was offered only plant matter (the seeds and fruits of trees and plants) for food. He was only offered (or at least, began taking) animals for food after the Fall.
 
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And before the Fall, what did animals eat: only plants and fruits?
 
meltzerboy2 said:
And before the Fall, what did animals eat: only plants and fruits?
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"And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.”

Now of course I would not claim that this a scientific fact. More a vision of what God intended for his creation, before the Fall corrupted his creation.
 
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