Animal Suffering

[SwordmanJr]

Thats an extremely elementary unspiritually minded understanding of 'death' in Pauls argument here.. physical death, like the death of bugs, plants, animals,, etc. is the farthest thing from Pauls mind.

Spiritual death in Adam because of sin is the 'type' -- Spiritual life in Christ because of justification is the 'anti-type',, is the point of Paul's argument in Romans 5,, if you through in biological 'death' of creatures or men, it warps pauls whole argument.

His use of the Greek word translated "death" in English actually has a multifaceted meaning, as is discussed by John Gill when he wrote:

"...and death by sin; that is, death has entered into the world of men by sin, by the first sin of the first man; not only corporeal death, but a spiritual or moral one, man, in consequence of this, becoming "dead in sin", deprived of righteousness, and averse, and impotent to all that is good; and also an eternal death, to which he is liable; for "the wages of sin is death", Rom_6:23; even eternal death: all mankind are in a legal sense dead, the sentence of condemnation and death immediately passed on Adam as soon as he had sinned, and upon all his posterity"

So, I somewhat agree with you, but to constrict Paul's meaning to only one realm of death is to claim absolute understanding of what was inspired within his mind. That's why scholars look to the hermaneutics of those passages and their context exegetically draw out the meaning as best we can.

 

[timewerx]

Sorry, dude, but that, along with quite a number of other problems in that book, render it untrustworthy.

Yes, I know, but the Bible also has quite a number of problems.