All the WTS is saying here is that after God created the animals and told them to be fruitful and multiply that the animals would age and die while producing offspring who also would age and die while producing offspring. I challenge you or anyone else to show me in scripture that God offered eternal life to the animals. ... The animals have always grown old and died. As I said I challenge anyone to prove from scripture that God offered eternal life to animals.
Yes, you have the WTS/JW heresy, plain as day.
In the beginning, it is written:
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
The word
"finished" is brought to perfection, completion. There is no mention of death in Genesis 1 or 2. The proof is in the text, and
the WTS cannot prove death of animals in Genesis 1 or 2, but have to 'add' such thoughts into it. They have to teach that "good" and "very good" and "finished" (perfected) means God allowed animals to die for so many days, weeks, months, years, decades, millennia. They wrest the teat of God's word, in "good" and "very good" and "finished", and bring forth 'sour milk'. They are deceived and deceiving. May their word of error perish with them, for it blasphemes JEHOVAH God and His awesome character of LIFE.
Yet, God's word states that "death" is the "enemy" which shall be "destroyed", and the text says
nothing about
only death of men, but the WTS have to 'add' again:
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Rev_20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
The
whole creation groans with pain of death because of Adam's sin:
Rom_8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
The first death mentioned in scripture is the slaying of the lambs for Adam and Eve:
Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Rev_13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 5:12, doesn't say only the death of men, but includes the death of men as a sub-category, in the second part of the verse. The Bible states that because of Adam's sin, "death" (which is an enemy to God, who is LIFE) entered into the world, and thus also men die. It is not exclusive to men.
The beasts of the field, are dying because of the sin of mankind:
Hos 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hos 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Because of Adam's sin, and in losing the
"first dominion" to satan, even the very earth, the whole creation, itself was to suffer, and lose its strength, and not yield as it did before, and needed to be strengthened, and thus trees came to fade:
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Isa_64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
The
"first dominion" of Adam, the first, had no death, nor dying, nor sorrow, nor such pains, and God is going to restore back what was before Adam's fall:
Mic_4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
The New Heavens and New Earth shall be as
"the first Dominion" with Adam, where there is no animal death, nor trees fading:
Isa 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isa 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Isa 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Even the trees, shall again not
"fade", but exist forever, as they were to from the
"beginning", in the
"first dominion":
Eze_47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
For God, who is the righteous, regards the LIFE (GOD gave) of His creatures and preserves them all, and only because of sin, do animals die, and God considers them all, one by one as precious:
Act_17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Pro_12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Mat_10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
God formed the earth to be inhabited with living creatures, not a world of death, disease, decay:
Isa_45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
God's command in the beginning was for the
"living" creatures to
"multiply",
not "die", as the WTS vainly and blasphemously imagine in its carnal and wicked hearts:
Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.