Animal death before the Fall
Does God care anything about animal death and suffering? The Bible says ‘yes’. It’s part of God’s nature.
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Would the pre-Fall world have been overrun by animals?
If there was no pre-Fall animal death, would they have overrun the world if Adam hadn’t sinned?
Can Christians add the big bang to the Bible?
God tells us in Genesis how and when He created the heavens and the earth. It wasn’t by means of a bang no matter how big.
10 answers from biblical creationists: Part 2
Clergyman and geologist Michael Roberts has thrown down the gauntlet to creationists with 10 provocative, and supposedly unanswerable questions about their ‘young Earth’ belief! (Part 2 of our answer)
The historical Adam and what he means for us
A review of: What Happened in the Garden, Abner Chou (Ed.)
Was there really no death before the Fall?
A correspondent asks: Was there really no death before the Fall? What about bugs and bee stingers?
Did Adam understand what death was?
Is it possible that Adam could not have comprehended death if he had not seen death?
The good news
Does it make sense without the bad news of the Fall?
‘No death before the Fall’?
The importance of the distinction of nephesh chayyah life.
Retroactive death!
Did God save people retroactively when Jesus died on the cross? Did God curse the
world for what Adam was going to do (sin) before Adam did it, as Bill Dembski claims?
The carnivorous nature and suffering of animals
Detailed biblical evidence shows that animals eating, hurting and killing each other is incompatible with the original ’very good’ creation. Therefore carnivory must have begun after the Fall.
Cosmic and universal death from Adam’s fall: an exegesis of Romans 8:19–23a
Romans 8 testifies that the Curse is universal in extent.