The problem of evil: pre-Fall animal death?
Did Adam’s pre-Fall immortality depend on access to the Tree of Life and was
there any sort of death of sentient animals before the Fall?
death-before-sin
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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.
The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe
The Bible clearly teaches that death is the result of Adam's sin. This is a major problem for long-age compromise. Even human death alone is enough to sink this false view. Animal death is another nail in the coffin. This paper also refutes Hugh Ross's misinformation about plant death.