Proof The Bible Is True

If God created everything in 6 days when exactly were ‘bad things’ created?

One of the most common questions asked of Christians is some version of: “If God is so loving, why are there bad things in the world?” The implication being that if God created this world in the state it is in, He can’t be ‘very good’ Himself. This is sometimes used as a reason to reject belief in God.

Exodus 20:11 states God created everything in 6 literal days. But that then means that claws and poison must also have been created within those 6 days …

CMI’s Creation Answers Book devotes a whole section to explaining this in great detail, providing not only a philosophical answer but also addressing more detailed questions such as, ‘What about animals that have attack/defence structures that seem ‘designed’ to hunt and kill (or protect them from such activity)?’ Again, this is because skeptics of biblical creation have used the (reasonable) argument that a ‘good’ God surely wouldn’t have created creatures designed to tear other creatures to pieces etc.

Knowledgeable Christians will generally rush to point out (validly) that things capable of causing harm (or defending against it) were a result of the Fall, which brought sin, death, and bloodshed into the world. But the question of when these physical attributes came to be remains. We are talking now about real physical mechanisms, not abstract concepts such as ‘evil’, for example.

Creationists often argue that creatures may be using their ‘equipment’ (teeth, claws etc) in a different way post-Fall than they would have previously. This is reasonable for some instances, but falls short for many others. Claws, teeth and poisonous fangs exist (along with the predatory instincts to use them), and if God created all things then some would say they must have been here from the beginning. Some would say this defeats one of the most powerful biblical creationist arguments against millions of years, namely that there could not have been death before Adam sinned. This is because it means creatures must have been killing each other long before Adam came on the scene.

Exodus 20:11 is certainly one of the most oft quoted verses to counter a belief in ‘millions of years’ of supposed earth history, as it explicitly states God created everything (the heavens and earth and all that is in them) in 6 literal days. But the verse can cut both ways because that then means that claws and poison must also have been created within those 6 days and the Fall had not yet occurred. How then do we explain this, and is there any scientific backup for the biblical account?

Surprise, surprise? Not really…

The first thing we need to understand is that God wasn’t surprised by the Fall of Adam. God is all knowing1 and so knew that a punishment would have to be meted out following Adam’s (and his offspring’s) rebellion.

Read More Bad things in creation – creation.com.