Thanks for allowing me to call you Nick.
Thank you for your response and further clarification on death before sin and did it change the animals.
I was just watching the news and guess what ...another theory from new studies that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. This time it was not simply the climate change alone from a meteorite. It was the temperature difference that caused a sex change in many to give an overwhemingly male populace. This resulted in their extinction the study said.
I'm impressed by your answers Nick though finals at college for me ended 29 years ago. Good luck.
A scientist on the Learning Channel or Discovery gave a good presentation a while back that T Rex was actually a scavenger by explaining differently about purpose of his hands and arms as well as his teeth.
Everyone can have an opinion based on study and faith. I have one too. But my goal is to gather information by asking questions and making statements probing for answers to help my ministry.
We agree that E=MC squared and that light travels in a straight line at the speed it does. But now we know through someones study and experimentation that light may actually be influenced to behave differently than previously thought. Certain outside forces bend and even slow its speed of travel in some instances. Again, whatever influence it is that effects it.
My point is... things visible and invisible...natural and supernatural could be influenced even effected by the introdution of another principle, law or power. And if there is no ruling King, Word, Force (Savior?) that gives the command for order, alignment and purpose...then some things if not all are given to eventual chaos.
The earth was without form and void (no order or limits...no rightful purpose) and the result was darkness on the face of the deep.
So could it be that God, who is Alpha and Omega (beginnings and endings), begins the process of how things will operate and to whom creation will be accountable by standing on the water covered earth (and some say this can't be done)...looking up... begins to Voice (sound) as a conductor uttering commands that have to be obeyed. God begins to divide and dominate. This priviledge was given to that which imaged God which was Adam (a man). This would begin the relationship of Father and Son. But when sin entered Adam...the dominator became dominated by every power he once ruled and commanded because the Sonship...the priviledged relationship was now absent or lost. That would result in God coming with Sonship to save, deliver, that which was lost, without form and void, and in terrible darkness. So, now again...the earth is without form and void so to speak and the reslult is darkness again (if you know what I mean).
So when I said that sin changed laws is incorrect. It's better for me to say laws were affected by sin. So it is possible, in my humble opinion, that nature was left to pursue a course of action without direction and proper accountabillity. Personally, I have no problem with death existing before the sin of man. Death before sin would have been, to me, beautiful and constructive. Maybe the word sleep would be a more applicable term as God putting Adam to sleep (death?) to bring from him Eve. And this was done before Adam sinned. Death after sin is grossly painful and destructive to bring to pass the opposite course originally purposed and desired. Even a celestial creature (Lucifer) was found with sin before man. I wonder what effect he had on things? Some powers have a slow effect while others may have a sudden effect. One wonders.
Your "theory of everything" is very interesting. That which would unite. Could it be when the sons of God take their rightful place with their Father that we will see these things be? A lot of theories to go between now and then.
Thanks Nick...your input is valuable to me. I can't express myself in the scientific domain as so many of you can chemically and physically. I deal in the spirit realm which I believe affects everything. I don't know all the theories and faiths that are out there. So be gentle with me.
Now I await for someone to pick this to pieces. hahahha (the nature of things)........... And I know Twohumble lurks about ..
DMP