Why do some Christians believe that all animals were vegetarians before the fall of Adam?

Question

Where in Genesis does it actually say that? If lions were supposed to eat grass, then why would they have the anatomy of a carnivore instead of a cow? It's inventing facts that aren't mentioned in the bible like the 6,000 year old earth that makes Christianity look bad.

So there were no meat-eating dinosaurs then?

Answer 1

Because there was no death until the fall of Adam. Can you figure it out from there, or do you need more help there Einstein?
Ths Bible doesn't say the Earth is 6000 years old. Adam left the garden 8000 years ago and we don't know how long he was in the garden, nor when God made His creations. The Bible doesn't cover that, because the importance is the prelude to Christ Jesus and then His arrival, death and ascension. And then final return.

Answer 2

There was no death until sin entered the world, therefore all animals had to have eaten vegetables. As far as the age of the world. Adam and Eve were created on day six of Creation Week. We don't know how long the were in the Garden before they were thrown out, but Cain was born when Adam was 130 years old. Therefore, they spent less then 130 years in the Garden. If you add up all the generations from Adam forward, you come up with an age of the earth around 6,000 years.

The facts are there, the genealogies in the Bible are a calender that God left for us.

Answer 3

There was no death of any kind before The Fall of Man. And as for the anatomy of a lion, most likely God knew that later they'd eat meat; because God knows everything. So that's why they don't have the anatomy of an herbivore. And by the way, Christianity doesn't invent facts, that's the job of evolutionists.

Answer 4

I think that it is based on the Biblical idea that there was no death until the fall of Adam & Eve (mentioned by both Paul and Moses). If no animal dies, then what did the carnivores eat?

The prophet Isaiah says that one day the lion will eat grass like an ox, so I suppose that God can change animals from carnivore to herbivore and back again.

Answer 5

The first two chapters of Genesis will clearly tells you that food was just the greens and the fruits. There was no death before sin and thus no meat-eating animals. And just because an animal has sharp teeth does not mean it is a carnivore. A panda has sharp claws and teeth but it eats bamboo shoots all day. A fruit bat has sharp teeth but it obviously eats only fruits. So having sharp teeth only means it has sharp teeth, for cutting and ripping. And it doesn't have to be meat.

Answer 6

so how do you explain the animals today that have the sharp teeth of a carnivore yet are herbivores? no there are not many but they are out there .

Could it be possible that God in His infinite wisdom prepared them for life after the fall as well?

I am much more likely to put my trust in God than in a man's 3 pounds of rotting worm food!

I believe animals were herbivores before the fall because God created everything good and perfect- don't try to figure it out by looking at it through your sin filled world understanding- while there was no sin in hte world it looked and animals behaved a LOT differently, it is not something we can imagine because we have no base of experience.

Check out answers answersingenesis.org

Answer 7

It doesn't actually say that, so I don't know where anybody would get such an idea.

Meat in the human diet was given the official "holy okey dokey" just after the flood, but the first recorded animal "slaying" was done by Abel, and it was blessed by God (sacrifice).

Answer 8

In Genesis 2, God formed man and planted the garden of Eden, in verse 17 He tolal Adam could eat of every tree (or plant) in the garden except for the 'tree of knowledge of good and evil'. Here he told man (Adam) what to eat (and by omission, what not to eat), He never told the animals what to eat.

As someone else has answered, after the flood Man was given the animals to eat without the blood.

Answer 9

GENESIS 1: 30---and to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to EVERYTHING MOVING UPON THE EARTH IN WHICH THERE IS LIFE AS A SOUL I HAVE GIVEN ALL GREEN VEGETATION FOR FOOD. AND IT CAME TO BE SO.
So then, after the Flood God gave Noah and his family permission to eat meat along with the vegetation--Genesis 9:2,3.

Answer 10

Genesis 9:2 and 3

2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything