Why Does God’s Creation Include Death?

[Mercy20]

Each day bring new tragedy, a small child is diagnosed with leukemia and undergoes extensive treatment only to die in the mother’s arms, a faithful missionary family is attacked by the people they minister and killed, others drown in a tsunami and some buried by great earthquakes.


A question then rises, was creation really very good?


In the beginning, God created the universe and everything in it in six actual days; at the end of his creative works He declared it as very good.


Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good…

To have been very good, God’s creation must have been with no blemish defect, disease, suffering or death.
If there was no human or plant death, when God finished his works and pronounced it as very good, why then do we die now?


We see death all around us every day; it is like something strange happened! Do you know that something that changed the good creation to death and suffering?


That something was sin.


What brought about sin and what are its consequences?

[Joshua]

God's creation was good and still it is good. When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree one of the consequences was death.

[lynkez]

Sin was brought by Satan. While he was in heaven and an angel he began to have pride just because he thought he was much favoured than others by having nice vocals. He then was thrown to the world and then he attacked and influenced man into his crew. We fell through Eve's giving in to Satan and ignoring God's commands.

Life is granted by God and only God takes it away. He knows the days each of us will live on earth and so we should not complain of anything that happens beyond our knowledge. All happens in the order of God.

[Ivyc]

Death wasn't God's plan for us,our first parents brought it upon us. They were advised not to eat the fruits from the middle tree, they were tempted and they gave into the temptations and death came as a punishment from God. There is hope for those who have accepted Christ as their Savior since they are assured life after death, eternal life.