Death before the Fall

[AllenWitmerMiller (Retired Professor & Minister.)]

@Greg

But sense has it that if there are carnivores roaming the earth that attacked and ate Adam, he would not quite be able to make it to the tree to regain life, would he? Adam does not eat animals and they dont eat him or other animals before the fall.

That’s because Adam was living in a specially-planted garden reserve—not in the wilderness which typified the rest of creation. How many cultivated gardens include carnivorous beasts in them? None that I know of.

@Greg

I see no other way about it.

That’s because you don’t allow yourself to be schooled outside of your favorite man-made traditions. Even when we show you scriptures which disagree with your positions, you simply reject them.

@Greg

The way i look at the various interpretations of Genesis is to take out of my mind all theories related to the science of man on the age of the earth, evolution etc and stick w the sense of the text alone.

No. Not even close. You stick with your traditions and then insist on reading them into the Biblical texts.

Greg, I’ve asked you this before: If there was no death before the fall, why was there a need for the fruit of the Tree of Life? Why would God provide an “antidote” for a “poison” which does not yet exist?