This is Ken Ham, often a guest on radio and TV on the Bible’s authority and reliability.
Genesis teaches that originally creation was perfect without any death or suffering. Death didn’t come until after sin. Yet Genesis also tells us that people and animals originally ate plants. So how did plants die before the fall?
Well, the Bible never describes plants as living or dying in the same way as animals or people. When an animal dies, the breath of life leaves it, but when a plant dies, it simply withers.
Plants were designed as a food source in a perfect world. So, God didn’t make them to live or die like animals.
Before sin, there was no death. And when Jesus returns the world will be like that again!
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This post originally appeared at https://answersingenesis.org/media/audio/answers-with-ken-ham/volume-152/what-about-plant-death/
