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Death and Suffering Questions and Answers

Key Articles

• How did bad things come about? (From The Creation Answers Book)
• Why is there death and suffering?
• Is cruelty normal?
• The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe: Hugh Ross’s blunders on plant death in the Bible

How can an all-powerful, loving God allow suffering and death?

• CMI answers philosophy/religion professor on biblical exegesis and the problem of evil
• Crossing the thin red line: There are answers
• The Fall into Sin
• Two histories of death
• Waves of sadness: Tsunami terror raises age-old questions (available in Spanish)
• The stingray of death: The tragic end of the life of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin
• New Zealand—part of a suffering world
• Pain in childbirth: result of the Fall or fear?
• Australia’s season of disasters
• Lennox, design and suffering
• Haiti’s horrendous earthquake disaster: Should we help and why?

How does the Bible link death and suffering to Adam’s sin?

• Cosmic and universal death from Adam’s fall: an exegesis of Romans 8:19–23a
• Romans 5:12–21: Paul’s view of literal Adam
• Pre-Adamites, sin, death and the human fossils

How does biblical Christianity explain the origin of poisons, and pathogenic bacteria and viruses?

• Did God make pathogenic viruses?
• Understanding Poisons from a Creationist Perspective
• Adam and the immune system
• Swine flu—Is it evidence of evolution?
• Infections, prions and evolution
• World leader on sickle-cell anemia: ‘Nothing to do with evolution!’

If the original creation was ‘very good,’ why do many living things have features for attacking others?

• Skeptics challenge: a ‘God of love’ created a killer jellyfish?
• The carnivorous nature and suffering of animals
• The problem of evil: pre-Fall animal death?

Is it possible for animals that are carnivorous in our world today to have survived in a pre-sin world without eating meat?

• The ‘bird of prey’ that’s not
• The Dracula connection to a young Earth
• Catching a kinkajou
• Echoes of Eden
• The lion that wouldn’t eat meat
• Lea, the spaghetti lioness
• Piranha
• Tigers and pigs … together?
• Kea: clever, clownish and carnivorous
• Vampire finches of the Galápagos
• Match the bat’s teeth
• The cat who refuses to eat meat
• ‘Carnivorous’ dinosaurs had plant diet

How did the Curse affect the rest of the creation?

• The carnivorous nature and suffering of animals
• Is the whole creation fallen?
• Farming frustrations
• Why are there prickles, anyway?

Who is Satan or the Devil?

• Who was the serpent?
• Snakes do eat dust!
• The Fall, Curse and Satan

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• Countering the Critics
• Christian Apologetics
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