Why God created harmful insects?

[Not David]

Like mosquitoes, cockroaches, fleas and even bacteria.

Should we kill them just because of what they are?

 

[Pedra]

This is a result of the fall.

 

[ArmyMatt]

He created insects good. they became harmful because of the Fall.

so we kill them now because we are fallen as well, and we need to live in our fallen state until Christ returns.

 

[Not David]

He created insects good. they became harmful because of the Fall.

so we kill them now because we are fallen as well, and we need to live in our fallen until Christ returns.

Does that include bacteria as well?

 

[brinny]

This is a result of the fall.

You beat me to it. That's exactly what i was going to post.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[Gregory Thompson]

Like mosquitoes, cockroaches, fleas and even bacteria.

Should we kill them just because of what they are?

The way I look at it, if the insect eats blood and/or carries disease, it needs to be exterminated.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

The way I look at it, if the insect eats blood and/or carries disease, it needs to be exterminated.

Naw, it's all part of the fallen ecosystem. Who's going to recycle all those dead bodies?

 

[AvgJoe]

Like mosquitoes, cockroaches, fleas and even bacteria.

Should we kill them just because of what they are?

~~~> Is it wrong to kill spiders or step on bugs? | GotQuestions.org

 

[ilovejcsog]

Kill them before they kill us.

 

[RDKirk]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't bacteria very important for the environment to function?

Yes.

Viruses, though. I'm not sure about viruses.

There are dangerous bacteria and beneficial bacteria. There are dangerous insects and beneficial insects.

I think it's suspicious that there are no directly beneficial viruses--viruses that we need. There are some viruses that work out okay because they live in our mucus and kill bacteria, but that's rather like saying pneumonia is beneficial because it killed the kid who has been bullying you.

The more I learn about viruses, the more I realize they live and operate like demons and unlike anything else God placed on this planet. The most complex virus compares to the simplest bacteria like a pop bottle rocket compares to the space shuttle. I don't really think they are part of the lineage of life native to God's creation.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[nutroll]

In the prolog of Saint John's gospel it says, "without Him nothing was made that was made." We may not understand how viruses could be good from our current state, but if they exist they were made by God and they were good. The devil does not create, and God does not create things evil.

 

[RDKirk]

I'm the prolog of Saint John's gospel it says, "without Him nothing was made that was made." We may not understand how viruses could be good from our current state, but if they exist they were made by God and they were good. The devil does not create, and God does not create things evil.

Well, how is there recombinant DNA? I'm not sure demons are any less capable than man in taking designs already created and cobbling a golem from them.

 

[JohnTh]

Well, how is there recombinant DNA? I'm not sure demons are any less capable than man in taking designs already created and cobbling a golem from them.

Demons can do only what God allows them to do and this depends on our relationship with God.

And to respond to main topic, Saint Symeon says the animals attack humans because they attack sin.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Naw, it's all part of the fallen ecosystem. Who's going to recycle all those dead bodies?

Now maggots are useful, if you watch them and don't let them eat away non-infected skin.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Does that include bacteria as well?

yes.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Now maggots are useful, if you watch them and don't let them eat away non-infected skin.

Didn't the Brits carry maggots to clean wounds during WW2?

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Didn't the Brits carry maggots to clean wounds during WW2?

It's possible, but I don't know. I got the tip from first aid training.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

It's possible, but I don't know. I got the tip from first aid training.

I just googled the topic. Huge amount of info. Maggots have been used for this for millennia.