Re: tsunami impact on animals

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From: "gordon brown" <gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: tsunami impact on animals

> The creation was good until man was created. Then it was very good. The
> passage does not say that it was perfect. For an example of perfection see
> Psalm 19:7 (The law of the Lord is perfect). We have prophecies of a
> better world in which there is no night and no Satan as in the old
> creation.

It seems to me that trying to settle this question by detailed studies of
the word /tobh/ & similar things is to miss the forest for the trees. The
very fact that humanity is given the commission to "be fruitful & multiply &
fill the earth & subdue it" means that God intends for creation to change.
& it's not much of a stretch to say that if God intended change, he intended
it for the better. This doesn't mean that God intended (though he no doubt
foresaw) the type of change consequent upon sin.

Change in itself is not bad - Greek philosophy not withstanding. What
determines whether it's good or bad is the direction of change.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Jan 11 11:22:36 2005