No death before sin => evolution couldn’t happen
>>No death before sin => evolution couldn’t happen<<
Arguably the strangest post I have ever seen on FR.
But if it works for you, good for ya.
Are you channeling f-christian?
Depends upon which death you are addressing. Jesus taught his disciples that there is more than one kind of death. ‘Let the dead go bury the dead’ ... as succinct a statement as The Lord could make, and as usual bringing the complex down to our level.
Isn't it interesting how those who promote any sort of evolution skip right over that rather inconvenient (to them) truth?
Indeed. And no competition between the species (the lion lays down with the lamb), thus no "natural selection" or "survival of the fittest" needed to occur.
Actually there is a problem with simultaneously holding two literalist positions: no death before sin, with death meaning ordinary death — the separation of body and soul (for those of us with a soul) and cessation of body functions to the point it is irreversible by ordinary natural processes, rather than spiritual death, as it must for your counterargument to evolution to hold — and “day” always meaning twenty-four hour period, as it must for account in Genesis 1 to preclude modern cosmology.
To hold that death means ordinary death, not spiritual death and day always means twenty-four hour period is to make God a liar and the serpent in the Garden the truth-teller.
Adam and Eve did not die in the ordinary sense in the twenty-four hour period after they eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil — indeed the Scriptures tell us Adam lived 800 years after fathering Seth (making irrelevant to my point how much of the 130 before was after the Fall).