AttentionKMartShoppers wrote:God didn't keep the world from decaying because Adam sinned....
See this just doesn't make sense. Why didn't God make a spider drink nectar like other insects? Or lion eat grass like a cow? Why was the change only selective?? Also, how did such change happen? Did God begin using his creative ability again? Or did some animals simply evolve into carnivores???
Attention wrote:K wrote:1) If God's creation was "perfect," then it is contradictory to say something could spontaneously go wrong with it.
It didn't spontaneously go wrong, it was caused by sin. After they sinned, God made sure they didn't get near the tree of eternal life, because He didn't want His people to live eternally in sin. So, it follows that He didn't want the world to be eternal once sin entered. Can't find the verse that says the earth will age like an old garment...
Something did spontaneously go wrong, and you pointed it out—Adam and Eve sinned. This means God's creation was not perfect, as a perfect creation would never go wrong. If you could provide any passages which reveal God's creation was perfect in and of itself, then I'd be interested to see them?
Additionally, if God is all-knowing, then it follows that God "never" intended the world to be everlasting (since He would know we would sin against Him). To say God didn't want the world to be everlasting once sin entered, well it kind of makes God out to be stupid and not really all-knowing. I think it much better to embrace that God created our world with the full knowledge of it's finite purpose including knowing that we would sin (Christ was afterall planned before the creation of the world—1 Peter 1:20). And given such knowledge God created well aware His creation wasn't perfect, and well aware it would not be everlasting. Therefore, there is no reason why God wouldn't in the very beginning create everything to work as it does today. On the other hand, to say God changed His creation after we sinned, is to make out God was unaware to the fact we would sin, and therefore God had to make a few last minute changes to His creation.
Lastly, if "death", "pain" and "suffering" is a punishment for "our sin", then why did God bring that punishment upon the animals and our entire universe? To me, such makes God out to be rash and unfair with His punishment!
Attention wrote:And Kuriendo, was the name eagle assigned to the animal by Adam, or people later on? I never read the through the list of Adam's names that he gave out....because it's not in Genesis. By the time the Jews (I'm guessing) got to naming the eagle, it was already a carnivore.
Perhaps so, although from what I've heard, different languages appear to be generally derived from one particular origin.
Kurieuo.