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Gramps,
Concerning the Garden of Eden, I understand that the animals did not die or
reproduce in the garden as Adam and Eve. Did the trees and plants reproduce
or die? Did the fruit rot after time? Brian, from Arizona |
Dear
Brian,
Here’s
what we don’t know. We don’t know when the earth fell from a terrestrial to
a telestial condition. It occurred as a result of the transgression of Adam and
Eve, but we have no revealed information on the time lapse between the
transgression and the expulsion. It very well was not the immediate result of a
command. The entire earth had to be changed from one condition to another whose
differences from the first can only be imagined. Also, although Adam and Eve
could have had no children until after the fall, that does not mean that the
plants and animals existing in the terrestrial world, that was the condition of
the earth before the fall, could not reproduce and propagate.
Gramps