coffee4u
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First God declared the creation very good. Not good by human standards but tôb meōd
Exceedingly good by Gods standards.
If the creation had been built upon old bones or if the tiger he just created could catch and kill the rabbit next to it, that would not have met those standards.
Then we are told the animals, all of them, were given plants for food.
Genesis 1
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
They were not eating each other and were of no danger to man or man to them.
We are given a glimpses of both Eden and the New World that God plans after the second coming of Christ.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox
Then we are told sin brought in death
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—
1 Corinthians 15:21
For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.
There was no death where there was no sin. They are completely linked. Sin-then death.
And this is not just spiritual death or God would not have also told them about their physical deaths.
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
Returning to dust was part of the curse.
Later on the the Bible we are told the earth will be restored. Restored back to what? Death and survival of the fittest? No, back to Eden, but an Eden that cannot be corrupted.
It isn't just us who are restored and redeemed but the world also.
Heaven is not the final destination, just the waiting room, waiting for God to destroy the world by fire and remake it back to what it was.
Romans 8:18-23
9 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
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