“one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”...

QUESTION: [composite of several]: You object to the idea that there was any death, even of animals, prior to Adam’s sin. Yet the scripture you use says “...by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans:5:12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
See All...). Death passed upon all men. Animals are not mentioned and certainly don’t sin. What would preclude animals from dying prior to the fall? You also insist that creation took six literal 24-hour days. Yet Peter said, “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter:3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
See All...). This seems to indicate that God’s idea of a day can include much more than 24 hours. Please respond in TBC.

RESPONSE: First of all, the words “day, day’s, days’, and days” are used thousands of times in the Bible. How can you say that Peter was referring not to any of the other usages but only to the “days” in Genesis 1? And if that really were the case, how can you change his “thousand years” to billions of years in order to accommodate the pseudo-scientific evolutionary process? You can’t justify that belief from Scripture. This is eisegesis, not exegesis. Had secular science not come up with this idea, surely no one reading the Bible ever would have. And why did secular science do this? Solely because evolution requires billions of years. So this is an evolutionary theory, not a biblical one. Secondly, 1,500 years before Peter, Moses had said: “A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night” (Ps:90:4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
See All...). Was Peter contradicting Moses? How long is a thousand years with the Lord—a day, or a watch in the night? It can’t be both. Obviously, neither Moses nor Peter said that a day equaled a thousand years with God—and they certainly didn’t declare that the six days of creation actually covered billions of years! Both of these spokespersons of the Holy Spirit are simply pointing out that God dwells outside of time and that what seems like a long, long time to us is nothing with God. One cannot read any more than this into these two passages. As for animals dying before Adam’s sin, which brought God’s judgment of death upon the entire creation, God had pronounced everything He had created as “very good” (Gn 1:31). It seems unreasonable that He would call fighting and eating one another and the death of animals or any other creatures “very good.” You are correct that Romans:5:12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
See All... doesn’t mention animals. But Romans:8:19-23 [19] For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. [20] For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, [21] Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. [22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
See All... clearly states that all of creation shared in the curse pronounced upon Adam for his sin and will be delivered from that curse upon “the manifestation of the sons of God” at the resurrection of the redeemed.