Third and final post about no death before Adam: Does the Bible teach death before sin? The Bible tells us very clearly that there was no death before sin from many passages. In fact, there are no Bible verses indicating there was death prior to sin. The only reason some people try to insert death before sin is to fit man’s ideas of “millions of years” of death from a uniformitarian view of the fossil record into the Bible. But this makes a mockery of God’s statement that everything was very good in Genesis 1:31. Death, animals eating other animals, thorns, cancer, tumors, and so on are not very good, and, yet, these are found in those fossil layers. This leads to compromising what God plainly says to accommodate fallible man’s ideas. Besides, the Scriptures reveal a global Flood in Genesis 6–8, after sin, which explains the vast majority of fossil layers. So, one need not appeal to billions of years to explain these layers. It is better to trust what God says: Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in God, than to trust in man. Keep in mind that having death before sin also undermines the very gospel, where Jesus Christ stepped into history to conquer sin and death. In doing so, He graciously offered the free gift of salvation to all who receive him. Romans 5 Okay, I’m going to wind this up with reading through a very important passage. Most things we already went over, and the passage is pretty self-explanatory. But there are a couple things I want to point out. Romans 5:12-20 V14 – a type, this means a model. In greek it was typos, both Adam and Christ are covenantal heads of the human race. They represented us, which is why we say the First and Last Adam. V18 – Some interpret this verse as a universalism salvation for all people, but we can see from the context, as in v17 that it’s for those who receive it.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:53:59 +0000
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