Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:14:47 PM
It is a grievous thing to consider that some of the people of God are willing to allow the idea of death and suffering before Adam’s sin. The only way to understand this in my thinking is from the influence of evolution in the church. This is why I consider it a vain philosophy disguised as science and an enemy of the cross. Real science is about the investigation of God’s creation as part of the dominion mandate and the discovery of His methods in the things that exist because they declare His glory.
God is explicit at the end of Genesis 1 that at the END of the days of creation all things he had made were ‘very good’…
‘Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day’ [Genesis 1:31].
The word ‘grievous’ was used for a reason. How can the people of God attribute the use of death and suffering as means of God’s creation as ‘very good’? The only answer is that something other than the Bible is their ultimate authority. Why will we not heed the warning of 2 Peter 3? Why do men advocate a local flood? Is it not because their view of the geologic column will not allow a world-wide catastrophic flood that could produce the fossil record? Yes! Their view of the column trumps the Biblical testimony.
Death in Scripture is called our enemy, specifically ‘the last enemy that will be destroyed is death’ [1 Corinthians 15:26]. How can we allow the position in the church that our mortal enemy existed in the preparation for the creation of man? If ‘the wages of sin is death’, will we make God unjust by allowing death before sin? Therefore, consider that any thought that death is something other than our enemy as a part of the creation before the fall is no friend of the church, but also our enemy.