Humans are supposed to die because adam and eve sinned. did all the other animals sin too?
2007-09-20 14:22:56 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone and everything dies eventually. The story of Adam and Eve was modeled after an ancient Sumerian creation story. If you studied world cosmologies you would see all the similarities between all the creation stories. Not all of them are exactly alike, but within regions, they are very similar.
2007-09-20 14:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Adam and Eve caused sin into the world. Sin causes bad things. Death is a bad thing. Animals die.
2007-09-20 14:40:52 · answer #2 · answered by ColorMeHappy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everything has a life cycle. Each has a different time frame from which to come into fruition, mature, and die. The animals, nor us, are any exception to this rule of nature. We were never meant to live forever (at least in one form!), and I suppose the religious zealots of the world would like to blame Adam and Eve on this simple fate. But the truth is, the Universe and all of Creation is in a constant state of evolution. I suppose you can blame Man, Woman, The Devil, whomever....but its simply a basic truth of existence.
2007-09-20 14:27:57 · answer #3 · answered by JennyP 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Men and Woman see in animals part of God’s generous provision for human welfare. Animals have served man as burden bearers, as sources of food and clothing, as sanitation agents, and as helpers in the vital activities of plowing and harvesting. Their variety of form and color has delighted his eye; their habits and instincts have been and still are an extensive field for inquiry into the marvels of God’s creative work. Though animals die in the same manner as man, they do not share his hope of a resurrection.
Animals were created with a limited life span, humans had the prospect of living on earth forever. ( Psalm 37:29) Jesus Christ said that to enjoy “everlasting life,” we must exercise faith and take in knowledge of God, things that animals are incapable of doing. (John 17:3)
God created animals for the sake of humans. Animals can help them do their work and can serve as their companions or pets. They also serve to magnify God’s love and wisdom.
The Creator gave life to both humans and animals. But for how long were they to continue to live? Scientists report that humans seem to have the potential of endless life, so that investigators are perplexed as to why man dies. The Bible gives the reason. It says that the Creator gave the first humans the opportunity of living forever. Death came only because they rebelled. What, though, of animals? They are not capable of conscious rebellion against God; yet they live only for a length of time and then die. Hence, it is clear that the Creator never purposed that individual animals live forever. For them death was natural.
It can be very sad, even tragic, to see a beloved pet die. But even in such a case, there is room for some balance. As noted earlier, animals were not created in God’s image, nor were they meant to live forever, as were humans. Regarding the way God made humans, the Bible says: “He has even put eternity into their minds.” Yet, nothing like this is said of animals. Ecclesiastes 3:11,
2007-09-20 17:47:13 · answer #4 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals can't sin. They don't know the difference between right and wrong and therefore they cannot also make informed decisions. They act purely on instinct. Animals die because they live inside a time frame like every other living thing on this earth.
Ecclesiastes 3:2
There is a time to be born and a time to die.
2007-09-20 14:40:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
for all we know Adam and Eve would have died anyway. it says "the day you eat, you shall surely die" and is not separation from God called death in the Bible? was there not a tree of life?
animals die because they are physical and have limitations. the same reason our bodies die. the same reasons cars break, the same reason old vases shatter with age.... that's just how things work.
2007-09-20 14:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The same way human and every other other living thing do we all have have to die some day so live your lives good
2007-09-20 14:30:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
are you f****** serious? take a reality check dude, your in the real world. everything dies. and if you seriously believe in Adam and eve than dont ever have sex again because your going to be doing your sister. and you will save us the trouble of having another religious nut in this world.
2007-09-20 14:29:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If animal don't die then then the world will be overloaded with animals. Same in humans too.
2007-09-20 14:27:29 · answer #9 · answered by valli 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
i'm making affirmation quickly and that i myself do not have faith in Christianity i've got faith in Atheism my mothers and fathers do not approve nonetheless. i don't think in what it says interior the bible and that i will answer this basically off good judgment: human beings do not die via fact they devoted a sin, they die via fact of injuries or organic reasons. The bible is nice nonetheless via fact it teaches morals, the thoughts are normally fake. Do you fairly think of a speaking snake confident a girl to consume an apple that could open the gates to hell? And that if toddler's are not baptized and that they die they flow to hell? No never, a minimum of this is why i don't think. yet to respond to your query Animals die via fact each and every thing dies at last. look at vegetation, they die too good?
2016-10-19 06:33:53 · answer #10 · answered by balsamo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋