Re: Life Death and Genesis

andrew (amandell@jpusa.chi.il.us)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 05:36:28 -0500

Hi Just wanted to add one thing to what George said here:
>
> Psalm 104 doesn't "thank" God for providing prey to the predator, but
praises
>God for doing so. & while Isaiah 11:6-9 suggests that this sort of
relationship will
>eventually end, that is an eschatological statement. It is not a
statement about
>the way things are to be now, like passages in the New Testament which
indicate that
>polygamy is to be done away with. Christians can still sing Psalm 104
today in praise
>of God, but we read about polygamy in the Old Testament only as history or
saga.

I think it is significant that some passages speaking of the end of lions
preying on lambs also mention the end of night and eternal day.
Now night was clearly part of the original plan so noone can use this
coming world as a mirror of the past. Also as a side note a plain reading
of Genesis seems to point to man's immortality resting in the tree of life.
Surely the animals of the earth did not travel the earth
to refresh themselves from this tree. Do you follow me here or am I out in
left field? Maybe all this is old hat I just like these two points for my
own mind.