[curiosity]

But we do have passages like Romans and other Scriptures that speak on death, blood, and the flesh that one can presume no death took place.

Ah, so you admit it! Your belief is based on a presumption. You are adding to the Word of God.

All those passages about blood and death and the flesh that you refer to could just as easily be referring to human death and not animal death.

We also have the commandmant to eat only plants given by God, which would rule out animals eating animals.

I know of no such commandment. Pray tell, where is it to be found?

[JohnnyM]

Actually I changed my mind. After doing some study, the Scriptures clearly support no death of either animal or man prior to the fall.

Here is the passage in Genesis 1

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

It is not until after the Flood that God allows for the eating of meat by man.

JM