I believe in a world where God both provides and lets us work. If I do not take certain preparations for my safety then I may lose what I have. Our society - indeed, our generation, enjoys a greater quality of life and can expect to live longer than many generations before. Why? We can determine why - far better understanding of the human body and how to look after it, general public awareness on safety, fresh running water, hygenic lifestyles, etc.
Take this scenario - Adam walks through a sinless world. Not just the garden of Eden, but the rest of the world. He never sinned, and so the world is still perfect and does not endure the curse of death. As he is walking, his foot is about to step on a tuft of grass that hides a snail from his vision. What happens?
* Will God engineer circumstances so that Adam steps just in the right place to miss the snail?
* Will Adam become supernaturally aware of the snail's presence and avoid crushing it?
* Will Adam simply find himself unable to do the action he was planning?
Or,
* Will Adam kill the snail?
Take another scenario, that applies to creationists and evolutionists alike. We live on the new Earth, our sins cleansed. A child lies with a snake and a lion, and there is peace. Death has been cast out, and we have all tasted of the tree of life so that none should die. In our new world we are constructing a building, one of architecture and skill beyond what we know today, as we designed it with our perfected bodies. Yet our perfected bodies do not understand everything. A crane that is lifting a support beam has snapped. The engineer who designed it did not take into account a property peculiar to the parts made to construct the crane. Indeed, he had no way of taking it into account - it was something that humans had not yet discovered or could even suspect existed. And here it results in a support beam falling a distance of 100 meters to land on a resurrected and perfected human below. What happens:
* Will God supernaturally remove this person from danger?
* Will the person supernaturally become aware of the danger?
* Will the person have the beam land on their head, yet they take no damage?
* Will they be crippled, experience pain, but never have the breath of life taken from them?
or
* Will that person die?
Why do we have blood that clots when we receive an injury, unless God planned that we would encounter injuries? If He did plan that, then can we expect to be injured in the next life when we receive our resurrected bodies?
Take this scenario - Adam walks through a sinless world. Not just the garden of Eden, but the rest of the world. He never sinned, and so the world is still perfect and does not endure the curse of death. As he is walking, his foot is about to step on a tuft of grass that hides a snail from his vision. What happens?
* Will God engineer circumstances so that Adam steps just in the right place to miss the snail?
* Will Adam become supernaturally aware of the snail's presence and avoid crushing it?
* Will Adam simply find himself unable to do the action he was planning?
Or,
* Will Adam kill the snail?
Take another scenario, that applies to creationists and evolutionists alike. We live on the new Earth, our sins cleansed. A child lies with a snake and a lion, and there is peace. Death has been cast out, and we have all tasted of the tree of life so that none should die. In our new world we are constructing a building, one of architecture and skill beyond what we know today, as we designed it with our perfected bodies. Yet our perfected bodies do not understand everything. A crane that is lifting a support beam has snapped. The engineer who designed it did not take into account a property peculiar to the parts made to construct the crane. Indeed, he had no way of taking it into account - it was something that humans had not yet discovered or could even suspect existed. And here it results in a support beam falling a distance of 100 meters to land on a resurrected and perfected human below. What happens:
* Will God supernaturally remove this person from danger?
* Will the person supernaturally become aware of the danger?
* Will the person have the beam land on their head, yet they take no damage?
* Will they be crippled, experience pain, but never have the breath of life taken from them?
or
* Will that person die?
Why do we have blood that clots when we receive an injury, unless God planned that we would encounter injuries? If He did plan that, then can we expect to be injured in the next life when we receive our resurrected bodies?
