[CatherineofAragon]

I maintain my point.

Genesis 1:30 says that God gave every beast of the earth plants to eat, so we know that the animals which today are carnivorous were not killing for food. There’s no Biblical implication that any other form of animal death occurred—in fact, all Scriptural evidence denies that it did.

The text says that God found His creation good. Does “good” include sickness and death in His eyes? We know it doesn’t.

Many (not necessarily you) try to insert death before sin in order to validate evolutionary theory. I don’t buy it.

[Varda]

I really don’t take scripture as a science book. It’s pretty clear that lions ate antelopes long before men appeared. That makes the meaning of the scripture passage something other than all animals were vegetarians. (Church doctrine is that truth doesn’t contradict truth) What is the actual literal sense what meaning was the sacred writer wishing to convey?
This may be a passage whose meaning we don’t have at present. One meaning we do have is that death doesn’t stop good from being good. Creation is good in it’s being.

[Graybeard58]

Genesis 1:30 says that God gave every beast of the earth plants to eat, so we know that the animals which today are carnivorous were not killing for food. There’s no Biblical implication that any other form of animal death occurred—in fact, all Scriptural evidence denies that it did.

The text says that God found His creation good. Does “good” include sickness and death in His eyes? We know it doesn’t.

Yep, it wasn't until Genesis 3, verse 21 that an animal death occurred.