The answer to the following questions can potentially defang Problem of Evil arguments. If animal death is merely a negative property of the universe that balances and gives continuity to nature, what does that say about Heaven? If it's possible to have an environment that's all positive--IOW, all yin and no yang--why wasn't that the original environment? Moreover, if a "run up" environment (Earth from creation to apocalypse) was necessary as a precursor to establish an all-positive environment (Heaven), why are human beings blamed for the state of affairs in the run up? The precursor had to unfold.
Wouldn't that make a "fall" of sorts inevitable anyway, since a prior uglier state of affairs was necessary to bring in a tear-free kingdom?
Wouldn't that make a "fall" of sorts inevitable anyway, since a prior uglier state of affairs was necessary to bring in a tear-free kingdom?
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