| Thanks for that, Karma...
Interesting side note about animals becoming carnivorous at that point. I was talking to someone a little while ago and that exact topic came up. When the animals were first created, they were all docile, and they all ate plants. Only later did they become dangerous. I hadn't thought about the *when* of that, but I suppose it would all have been part of the Fall.
FWIW - I don't really think God got all angry and cursed man (and woman) kind. I think the more accurate way to put it would be that Adam and Eve, through their choice to put themselves above God, in doing so also chose to step outside of His umbrella of protection. Even today, I have times when things are good and I know that I'm doing what I should, and then there are times when I've made decisions that weren't so great, and in the process opened myself to possible consequences that I wouldn't have wanted and that I know God would want me not to have to go through. Some people would call that semantics, I suppose. |