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Death: Evolution vs. Creation
This week's illustration, 'Evolution - Creation', includes five Bible verse illustrations: Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22; 1 Corinthians 15:26; Genesis 1:29-30; Genesis 9:3.
This picture illustrates the fact that if someone believes in millions of years of Earth's history and/or evolution, then death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering occurred before man's existence. However, if someone believes in the Creation account as written in the book of Genesis, then death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering of man and animals is a consequence of sin.
If a person takes the Bible consistently from Genesis to Revelation, interpreting
Scripture with Scripture, then he or she really can come to no other conclusion
than death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering of the 'nephesh' animals
and man is a consequence of sin.
Genesis 1:29-30 makes it obvious that originally, animals and man were
vegetarian. Some would say therefore that plants died before sin. However,
the Bible in Genesis 1 makes it clear that animals and man have a 'nephesh'—that
is, a 'life spirit,' or soul. Plants do not have this. Plants were given
for food—they are not living in the same sense that animals are. Man was
told he could eat animals after the Flood in Genesis 9:3. Romans 5:12
and 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 make it clear that death came into the world
because of sin.
Some people try to say that this death only refers to man, and not to
the animals. However, it is clear from taking the whole of Scripture that
animals were vegetarian (like man) before the Fall, and understanding
the Biblical doctrine of the atonement (as will be discussed in a future
illustration) there could be no animal death or bloodshed before the Fall
either.
1 Corinthians 15:26 calls death an enemy. Death is an intrusion. Some
try to make out that this death is only 'spiritual' death and not 'physical'
death. However, the Bible verses cited make it clear that Christ's death
on the Cross is related to the death that came into the world because
of the first man's sin. This was a physical death. When Adam sinned, man
died spiritually in the sense that he was separated from God, and he also
began to die physically.
