What About Plant Death?

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Genesis teaches that God’s original creation was perfect without any death or suffering. Death didn’t come until after Adam sinned. But Genesis also tells us that people and animals were originally vegetarian, eating the plants God made. So how did plants die before the fall?

Well, the Bible never describes plants as living or dying in the same way as humans and animals. For example, when an animal dies, the breath of life leaves it; but when a plant dies, it simply withers. So, no, plants “dying” before the fall isn’t a contradiction to the biblical truth that there was no death before sin.

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