I am a Biblical Creationist: I believe that what the Bible says is true, and what the Bible does not say is open to conjecture. Some parts of the history of creation as we have received it bring questions to my mind that strict no-death YEC have not answered other than with shouts of “heretic!”
One question, for example: when Adam ate of the non-forbidden fruits and veggies, did they die? Or did they somehow survive harvesting, mastication, and digestion?
My theory is that there was corporeal death among the non-human creation. Adam is uniquely described as being given God’s Breath of Life. It made him “a living soul”; it is that which would have sustained him in immortality, and it is that which was taken from him at the Fall and which will be restored to us at the Resurrection.
Thoughts? Or just more shouts of “heretic!”
“One question, for example: when Adam ate of the non-forbidden fruits and veggies, did they die? Or did they somehow survive harvesting, mastication, and digestion?”
You are correct.
Even the comment from God to Adam to “tend the garden” implies that certain plants were to be purposely discarded or thinned.
Adam and Eve ate of the Fruits of the Garden.
Do fruit trees die when you pick a fruit?
Who says he pulled up a turnip by the roots? (Thus killing it).
I don’t believe there was ANY death before the fall.