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Here's where I throw my hat into the ring.
Evil started long before the foundation of the world. It started when Lucifer decided to try and share God's throne and had the support of a third of the angels. It was Lucifer's pride that brought evil into existence. Therefore, God had worked out His plan for redemption long before He created the universe, space, the laws of physics, and time. The purpose for His plan of redemption was to eradicate evil from existence. He knew beforehand that man was going to fall, and He already had His Son prepared to come to earth as a man, to die on the Cross as a God/man to take the full force of God's wrath for sin upon Himself, be raised from the dead as as forerunner of many others who will be raised from the dead in due time. When Satan, his angels, and all those who have sided with him are cast into the lake of fire, evil will be eradicated, and new creation with the New Jerusalem will be here without any sign of evil at all.
When Adam disobeyed God, evil entered into his heart. He did not become mortal as some have previously thought. If we read the Scripture carefully, Adam was still subject to decay consistently with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. What was to keep Adam remaining permanently alive and not subject to decay was eating from the tree of life. This is why he and Eve were cast out of the garden and a guard was put on the tree of life so that no one could get to it and eat the fruit of it. God did not want anyone to eat that fruit because they knew that man, along with his evil heart, would continue to live on, perhaps for ever. This would have upset His plan for redemption - to get rid of evil once and for all. Adam was created brand new, but would eventually have succumbed to decay if he did not eat of the tree of life. So, being cast out and away from the tree of life, that is exactly what happened to him approximately 960 years later.
The Bible is silent on what was going on with the animals and birds before Adam sinned. Consistent with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, they would have been subject to decay. The birds would have eaten insects, the herbivores would have eaten plants, and the carnivorous animals would have had other animals for prey. This is why in the Scripture God commanded that the whole earth be fully populated with as many animal types as the earth could hold. As an animal species became extinct through death and decay, God just created more up to the end of the 6th day, but then He stopped creating in the 7th day. Man was not subject to the same death and decay because of the availability of the tree of life, until he disobeyed, and then death reigned over man along with all the others. I know that some will deny what I am saying about the animals and birds, but all they have to do is to think about what the animals would have to live on if they didn't have insects, plants, and animals for food.
Oh, by the way, the curse was on the ground, not on the insects, birds and animals. That's what the Scripture actually says. Many assume that the curse involved all life on the earth, but they are adding their own assumptions to the actual wording of the Scripture.
Evil started long before the foundation of the world. It started when Lucifer decided to try and share God's throne and had the support of a third of the angels. It was Lucifer's pride that brought evil into existence. Therefore, God had worked out His plan for redemption long before He created the universe, space, the laws of physics, and time. The purpose for His plan of redemption was to eradicate evil from existence. He knew beforehand that man was going to fall, and He already had His Son prepared to come to earth as a man, to die on the Cross as a God/man to take the full force of God's wrath for sin upon Himself, be raised from the dead as as forerunner of many others who will be raised from the dead in due time. When Satan, his angels, and all those who have sided with him are cast into the lake of fire, evil will be eradicated, and new creation with the New Jerusalem will be here without any sign of evil at all.
When Adam disobeyed God, evil entered into his heart. He did not become mortal as some have previously thought. If we read the Scripture carefully, Adam was still subject to decay consistently with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. What was to keep Adam remaining permanently alive and not subject to decay was eating from the tree of life. This is why he and Eve were cast out of the garden and a guard was put on the tree of life so that no one could get to it and eat the fruit of it. God did not want anyone to eat that fruit because they knew that man, along with his evil heart, would continue to live on, perhaps for ever. This would have upset His plan for redemption - to get rid of evil once and for all. Adam was created brand new, but would eventually have succumbed to decay if he did not eat of the tree of life. So, being cast out and away from the tree of life, that is exactly what happened to him approximately 960 years later.
The Bible is silent on what was going on with the animals and birds before Adam sinned. Consistent with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, they would have been subject to decay. The birds would have eaten insects, the herbivores would have eaten plants, and the carnivorous animals would have had other animals for prey. This is why in the Scripture God commanded that the whole earth be fully populated with as many animal types as the earth could hold. As an animal species became extinct through death and decay, God just created more up to the end of the 6th day, but then He stopped creating in the 7th day. Man was not subject to the same death and decay because of the availability of the tree of life, until he disobeyed, and then death reigned over man along with all the others. I know that some will deny what I am saying about the animals and birds, but all they have to do is to think about what the animals would have to live on if they didn't have insects, plants, and animals for food.
Oh, by the way, the curse was on the ground, not on the insects, birds and animals. That's what the Scripture actually says. Many assume that the curse involved all life on the earth, but they are adding their own assumptions to the actual wording of the Scripture.
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