The Bible is adamant ... that death, disease, and suffering came
into the world as a result of sin.
God instituted death and bloodshed because of sin
so man could be redeemed.
As soon as Christians allow for death, suffering, and disease
before sin, then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross
and the Atonement have been destroyed.
The doctrine of original sin, then, is totally undermined.
If there were death, disease, and suffering before Adam rebelled—
then what did sin do to the world?
What does Paul mean in Romans 8 when he says the whole of creation
groans in pain because of the Curse?
How can all things be restored in the future to no more death
and suffering, unless the beginning was also
free of death and suffering?
The whole message of the gospel falls apart if one allows millions
of years for the creation of the world.
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