A fourth reason animal death before the fall did not happen is the promise of future peace between animals and humans. The event asked about is God had to kill an animal to provide covering for them, so through Adam, sin and death entered the world. However, a closer study of the data reveals that the charge is anchored outside, rather than inside, the biblical text. Your newsletter signup did not work out. However, it was not Gods fault because God has no faults. If disease were good, then God must have directly and purposefully created pathogens and parasites to afflict animals in this good world. BibleGateway Podcast: Will God Restore All of the Animals? But that is a far as it goes. We hate SPAM and promise to keep your email address safe. This is the nature of authority. Man sinned, death entered into the world, and death spread to man. It is part of a series on the what Genesis says about the human condition. He d Please follow the instructions Killed The First Animal Thank you for signing up to receive email newsletters from Answers in Genesis. My Pastor spoke about this recently in a sermon on Genesis 3 and 4. NOAH: What Race was Noah? Verses 2930 show that very good was also a statement concerning the vegetarian diet of man and animals. T he fig leaves which Adam and Eve sewed together did not cover their nakedness, so the Lord God made clothes from animal skins to cover Adam and his wife. Both of them took a lesson from this experience in how much their sins had cost them. Moral evil did not exist in Gods original creation; it was created very good, and moral good (since God is the standard of moral goodness) must be a component of this creation (Genesis 1:31). You're almost done! Once again, assumptions are read into the text based on a previous foundational belief, namely that there was no death of any kind before Adam sinned. "The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." If Christs resurrection of our mortal bodies into a sinless state and the end of suffering and death for all of creation (except those God will judge for rejecting him) are intertwined, is it not readily apparent that mans sin caused death and suffering to enter the world, meaning all the rest of Gods creation? did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them; not that before this they were only bone and flesh, and now God brought a skin over them, and covered them with it, or ordered a beast, which was very like a man, to have its skin stripped off, and put on him, as some in Aben Ezra foolishly imagined; but these were made of the skins of beasts, not of the skin of the serpent, as the Targum of Jonathan; but of creatures slain, not merely for this purpose, nor for food, but for sacrifice, as a type of the woman's seed, whose heel was to be bruised, or who was to suffer death for the sins of men; and therefore to keep up and direct the faith of our first parents to the slain Lamb of God from the foundation of the world, and of all believers in all ages, until the Messiah should come and die, and become a sacrifice for sin, the sacrifices of slain beasts were appointed: and of the skins of these the Lord God, either by his almighty power, made coats for the man and his wife, or by the ministry of angels; or he instructed and directed them to make them, which was an instance of goodness to them; not only to provide food for them as before, but also raiment; and which though not rich, fine, and soft, yet was substantial, and sufficient to protect them from all inclemencies of the weather; and they might serve as to put them in mind of their fall, so of their mortality by it, and of the condition sin had brought them into; being in themselves, and according to their deserts, like the beasts that perish: as also they were emblems of the robe of Christ's righteousness, and the garments of his salvation, to be wrought out by his obedience, sufferings, and death; with which being arrayed, they should not be found naked, nor be condemned, but be secured from wrath to come. This is the beautiful picture God is (u) Or, gave them knowledge to make themselves coats. books illustrating his truth in those stories, just as childrens 3-1: The serpent in the garden was satan's attempt to counterfeit life. A third reason animal death did not happen before the fall is that God created everything to last forever at the beginning. WebThe grace of God is His choosing to bless and favor us rather than curse us as our sin deserves. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God, Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Garments are intended to cover a person's skin, not be their skin. But to say the old-earth belief of pre-Fall animal death undermines Jesus work on the cross is to make a serious charge based on insufficient biblical evidence. Finally, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden and placed an angel to guard the tree (Genesis 3:7) Adam and Eve had deprived themselves of something that they had before, namely, their prior created goodness which was now a memory and because of their disobedience they became aware of their guilt (Genesis 3:8). For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.. We already saw Rebekah making gloves for Jacob of goatskin. The Lord furnished the skins to cover Adam and Eve. They could not escape Gods Justice. 1-3: How the word "ELOHIM" expresses God's plural nature and His majesty, 1-2: How God logically organized His creation, 1-1: God created the universe BEFORE Day One. Web1 An explanation of the idea that God provided the skins by killing the first animals to powerfully show Adam and Eve the result of their sin, and the idea that this typified the
