Friday, January 27, 2012

Did God or Satan, or both together, design the modern tiger?

Fundamentalist Christians believe that carnivorous animals like the tiger used to be docile vegetarians in the Garden of Eden. Then, after the Fall of Man, the Food Chain came about, and tigers became hunters with meat-eating teeth, with bodies adapted for stalking and hunting, eyes that could see in the night etc. But that would mean the pre-Lapsarian tiger was a very different animal to the modern one. So, when we admire tigers today, are we admiring the work of God, or the work brought about by sin (and therefore Satan). Isn’t that what Blake was driving at when he wrote of the tiger in a famous poem: “Did He who made the lamb, make thee? And, as all of Nature is fallen in this way, don’t we really praise Satan whenever we admire it? Or are Satan and God just opposite sides of a coin, like many dualists and Gnostics believe?

Did God or Satan, or both together, design the modern tiger?
The modern tiger was designed by the needs of the tiger in the world in which they lived. Evolution caused them to be the way they are today.
Reply:Lucifer was once god's favorite angel...perhaps it was a collaberation...
Reply:the tiger, and the shark, bush...etc
Reply:I think most would consider me a fundamentalist Christian. In the future, please don't tell others what I believe unless you either know for sure or have consulted me first. You are way off base, sir. God created carnivorous animals to eat other animals. It is not a result of the fall of man. (The pointy teeth are a dead giveaway!)
Reply:How about the process of Evolution.
Reply:God creates and the devil can only influence.
Reply:God Created all living things not Satan.


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