Did Adam And Eat Meat ?

[Scott Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by Aquila

The typical answer for those who believe in a literal interpretation is that the earth had a vapor sheild that sheilded it from the Sun's radiation, this, they say, contributed to Adam's immortality and lack of aging. Once man fell this layer began to thin and this vapor canopy actually was a source of water for the flood.

Now...if you want to be a strict biblicist one must find the "biblical" sourse of Adam's immortality. The Scriptures say,

Genesis 3:22-24
22And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

The implication is that biblically speaking Adam's immortality and agelessness was predicated to his access to the tree of life...not some vapor canopy made up by Creationists to "sound scientific".

Now, if one were to take a strictly LITERAL approach we have to ask... did every animal on earth also have access to this tree of life? If not, we have to assume that they lived and died as they do today. The notion of there being absolutely no animal death prior to the fall is then a thin argument. If animals died and ate other animals before the fall...it's conceivable that Adam too may have eaten a stake or two!

So there ya have it... I've demonstrated that Adam may have indeed eaten meat.

Yes without access to the tree of life came the loss of immortality.