And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
(Genesis 2:8-9) KJV
We have lots of questions and definitions today. I thought I’d share them.
- Question:
- IF God created a perfect world which got ruined by accident,
- THEN why was the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden?
- Answer:
- God didn’t create a perfect world.
- Question:
- WHY did God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden,
- IF he knew that eating the fruit would ruin his creation?
- Answer:
- Eating the fruit didn’t ruin God’s creation.
- Question:
- IF God’s perfect world wasn’t supposed to fall into corruption, Plan A,
- THEN was Christ’s death on the cross Plan B?
- Answer:
- God didn’t create a perfect world.
- Question:
- IF our soul is eternal,
- WHY would we need a tree of life?
- Answer:
- The tree of life is for healing the body, not the soul.
Abiogenesis is the creative will of God expressed as progressively more complex biological life over the course of the 6 days of creation.
– Abiogenesis, definition
Devolution is change in allele frequency in a population, combined with accumulated mutations and DNA replication errors, that causes genomic decay, sickness, and loss of variability over time. It includes both macro and micro evolution. It began at the fall of man in Genesis 3:16.
– Devolution, definition
Devolution is the process of genetic change over time by which the animals saved on Noah’s ark gave rise to the distribution of current biodiversity.
– Devolution, context
Evolution on the scale required in the SciPop paradigm requires death. There was no death before sin, therefore the evolutionary basis of the Phylogenetic Tree of Life is impossible.
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