Did man or ape bring sin into our world?
English: Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil עברית: חטא עץ הדעת - ד"ר לידיה קוזניצקי (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "For since by man came death , by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." ( 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 ) These verses, coupled with others throughout the Old and New Testaments , teach a very important principle not fully appreciated by those Christians who would hold that man evolved from lower animals or even that his tenure on earth was preceded by millions of years. For if the earth is old, then death is part of the natural order of things, and billions upon billions of organisms have lived and died, struggling for existence, surviving only if they were "fit." Taken at face value, however, the Bible indicates a far different scenario. Evidently, at the beginning, all living creatures (i.e., conscious life as opposed to plants and non-conscious "animals") were cr