Tough Questions for Christians # 29: The Fallen World

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Whenever I talk about the not-so-pleasant parts of life, diseases, bacteria, viruses, animals who eat other animals - and would eat people if they got the opportunity - I'm reminded by Christians that we live in a "fallen" world.

The world God created originally was nowhere near this violent or this abusive. In fact, all the animals lived peacefully with each other.

Apparently everything ate plants and grass. Flesh eating bacteria simply lived off of... your lawn clippings I guess.

I'm told that because man sinned, the world fell. Animals grew fangs, they became carnivorous, snakes developed venom, bees grew stingers, insects started biting people, everything kinda went to shit pretty fast. And, they say it's man's fault, because man created the "fallen" world.

You see, the trouble is - man doesn't have the ability to create anything.

God created the world, he made the planets, he made the animals, he made everything, right? We don't have the ability to do that. The ability to genetically engineer creatures is something we are just barely tapping into now.

Man had the ability to eat a fruit, yes. He had the ability to sin and do something God told him not to, sure. He DIDN'T have the ability to make lions grow fangs and become carnivorous, or to make rattle snakes suddenly venomous, or to make flesh-eating bacteria start eating flesh.

That's beyond the capabilities of ANY human being.

If you believe in creation, then you must believe that SOMETHING created the fallen world. Something actually designed it, because the lions and tigers and bears - oh my - are no less designed than they were when they were all friendly.

If God didn't create malaria, or flesh eating bacteria, or the bubonic plague, or make animals venomous, make animals carnivorous, and make the entire world live in such a way that life ALWAYS feeds on death... If God didn't design it that way, if it was a result of Adam's fall, then who was the designer of the fallen world?

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS #29
WHO DESIGNED THE "FALLEN" WORLD?





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