Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
The seeds are even little fruit embryos, which makes them independent organisms. Of course,
they aren’t human. They aren’t rational beings, so they don’t have rights or a right to life, and
it’s okay to eat them. But they do die when we eat and digest them. The same thing is true of
other plant matter we eat. So we have reason to think, even on a highly literal reading of
Genesis, that there was plant death before the Fall.
D. C. Spanner in Biblical Creation and the Theory of Evolution, Paternoster, 1987 argues
for the existence of antagonism between animals and even resistance to the growth of
plants even before the fall
. . . the mandate given to man in Genesis 1:28 which reads, “Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion . . . over every living thing” charged man with
“subduing’” the earth. The Hebrew word for “subdue” is kabas, and in all its other occurrences
in Scripture (about twelve in all) it is used as a term indicating strong action in the face of
opposition, enmity or evil. Thus, the land of Canaan was “subdued” before Israel, though the
Canaanites had chariots of iron (Josh. 17:8; 18:1); weapons of war are “subdued,” so are
iniquities (Zech. 9:15; Micah 7:19). The word is never used in a mild sense. It indicates, I
believe, that Adam was sent into a world where all was not sweetness and light, for in such a
world what would there be to subdue? The animals, it suggests, included some that were wild
and ferocious, and Adam was charged to exercise a genuinely civilizing role and to promote
harmony among them.
These arguments proposes that second law of thermodynamics of entropic increase was part
of the creation below the divine and spiritual realm in the realms of soul and body. Adam and
Eve being also in the dimensions of Spirit and Divinity were not part of the mortal region.
Remember it is the contact with the Spirit that gives life, his life will be renewed.
With God within the cosmos, it is an infinite system where life is pumped in to every living and
second law of thermodynamics applies only to a closed system, a finite system. In the fall
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