death before the fall
E G M (e_g_m@yahoo.com)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:50:15 -0800 (PST)Dr. Pattle Pun said:
<<A discussion of theodicy is beyond the current topic. But as I
mentioned
in my earlier paper (JASA, 3/87, p. 9-19): the presuppositions that one
cannot impose human volition in the non-human world, man's dominion in
the
created world implies his control of the reproductive pattern of the
non-human life forms, and the the food chain necessitates physical death
in the things eaten, suggest that physical death was present before the
fall.>>
Is a fruit (e.g., an apple) dead or alive? Is pre-fall "biblical
absence of death" applicable only to the "animal" kingdom? BTW, your
conclusion seem to be true only if you hold on to the "current"
biological laws...
==
EGM
"in ipso enim vivimus et movemur et sumus sicut"
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