Is Death in the Animal kingdom the results of Adam and Eve's sins?

Question

If so, why would animals have to pay for the sins of man?

Answer 1

No, it obviously is not. Animals lived and died for many millions of years before human beings were created. Dinosaurs died out completely long before the sin of Adam and Eve. This is a natural part of biological life, by which overpopulation of the environment is prevented and necessary nutrients are recycled. It is the way the Intelligent Designer intended biological life to exist.
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Answer 2

So the (fundamentalist) Christians say. As for the fairness of it, I just don't think animals as sentient beings exist in their mental universe. Really. The French philosopher Descartes thought that animals were basically automata incapable of feeling pain, etc., and I think this view is still prevalent in some circles. Rabbi Kushner unabashedly expressed this view in his "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People." I pretty much put that book down--and didn't pick it back up again--after that...

Answer 3

Animals no longer have to pay that price. But, at the time, since God had been temporarily barred from access to Earth due to Adam forfeiting his authority over the planet to Satan, God had to find a substitute for sin covering since man couldn't die for his own sins without being doomed to Hell! God killed the goat for Adam and Eve's "shame covering" to show them by example that only blood would cover their sins. Since animals have no soul of their own, they were deemed a viable substitute until such a time that it was realized that animals couldn't die WILLINGLY for man's sin and because man's sin progressively got worse as time progressed, it was necessary that a WILLING substitute raised in the same vein as animal sacrifices were be powerful enough to cover all sin for all time so that God could reside in man instead of a Temple and we could seek Him on own own by His terms.

Answer 4

Interesting question. I don't know, before there was sin, there was life. With sin, death came upon everything living, that includes plants, animals, humans.
Although animals have souls (different from human souls), it is possible that they too will be in heaven after they die.

Answer 5

According to Scripture ALL death is a result of the transgression of Adam and eve.

Thus there was no death in the world before that time ...and thus evolution could not possibly have occurred ....(take note 'Christians' who have foolishly allowed yourself to be indoctrinated by evolution philosophy).

Answer 6

NO, NO, AND NO!
Everything and everyone has to die sooner or later or the planet would be so over populated that the new creatures being born would have no space to occupy on earth.

The so called original sin has nothing to do with things dying. It's called NATURE.

Answer 7

They have a little talking animal story book where each of the animal species reenact the Garden of Eden.

It's only available at Southern Baptist conventions and only sold to members.

Answer 8

Animal was killed to cover up Adam's and Eve's nakedness. Wages of the sin was death.

We are here for God's purposes. :)

Answer 9

It wasnt the humans sins that made them die, they were some of the penguin armys most hated adversaries. They had to be taken care of.

Answer 10

2 Peter 2:12-13 12 But these [men], like unreasoning animals born naturally to be caught and destroyed, will, in the things of which they are ignorant and speak abusively, even suffer destruction in their own [course of] destruction, 13 wronging themselves as a reward for wrongdoing.. . .

What do you think it teaches about your question in that scripture?