by joelbear 4 Replies latest jw friends
Another question.
Since animals also were enjoying paradise when Adam sinned, they were also deprived of paradise when Adam sinned.
How can God allow the suffering of trillions and trillion of living creatures who had nothing to do with the sin of Adam and who do not inherit sin from Adam?
Joel
Joelbear;
The animals were never created with the possibility of living forever, or so the story goes.
Abel killed his sheep for sacrifices right of the bat. The Mosaic Law said that animals had to be treated humanely, that is when they were not busy sacrificing them.
I have always wondered why there is no mention of pets in the Bible. There is the tidbit where Jesus talks about the "little dogs" getting the scraps under the table. Other than that, dogs are always presented in a negative fashion.
Target
I was not referring to everlasting life, but simply the suffering they are subjected to during their limited existence.
Joel
Good point, Joel. Why are they being punished unjustly?
On a related point, JW's explain the process of aging and death
as being a consequence of inherited imperfection. If we were not
imperfect, we wouldn't die. Yet, animals age and die just like we
do and they have no original sin.
Why do we need the concept of original sin to explain our condition,
when animals experience precisely the same condition with no
explanation? Again, why are they being punished with aging, sickness,
and death, when they did nothing wrong?
I always wondered why we need redemption from sin, but the animals dont. Animals are so called created perfect, but are capable of killing for fun, getting angry, etc.
Odd isnt it?
Sirona
