By one man (Adam) sin entered the world, and death by sin. Romans 5:12
The Bible declares that death resulted because of Adam’s sin:
As in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22)
Like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; there they have dealt treacherously against Me. (Hosea 6:7)
The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned… Death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. (Romans 5:12,14)
The crust of the earth is heavy laden with a record of death. Millions of fossilized animals and plants are embedded in the sedimentary rock layers every where on earth. Fossil fuels, such as crude oil and coal, are the products of rapidly buried and pressurized animal and plant remains. Prior to the advent of modern geology in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, most individuals believed the catastrophic worldwide flood in Noah’s day was the reason for the fossil record. Modern geology changed this however, and unfortunately, some Christian authors, educators and commentators, in an effort to harmonize the Biblical record with geology, began to advocate that death existed prior to Adam. Charles Spurgeon, a leading British baptist preacher stated, “Can any man tell me when the beginning was? Years ago we thought the beginning of this world was when Adam came upon it; but we have discovered that thousands of years before that God was preparing chaotic matter to make it a fit abode for man, putting races of creatures upon it, who might die and leave behind the marks of his handiwork and marvelous skill, before he tried his hand on man.”
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