In what ways has nature changed since Creation? - Nature - TouchPoints

Romans 5:12When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in God’s perfect creation in the Garden of Eden, sin entered the world and changed everything.

Psalm 51:5I was born a sinner—yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.

From the point of the first sin, every person has been born with a sin nature and born into a sinful fallen world.

Ephesians 2:3All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.

Because of our sinful nature and our sins, we are separated from God and deserving of his punishment.

Genesis 3:16-19Then he [God] said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.” And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

The immediate effects of Adam and Eve’s sin include pain in childbirth, relational conflict, great difficulty in sustaining life, and physical death. Nature also experienced dramatic changes, including the introduction of “thorns and thistles.”

Romans 8:20-22Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

At sin’s entrance (the Fall), “all creation was subjected to God’s curse,” so, in some respects, every aspect of nature is imperfect, with decay and death, not as God had originally created it to be. Other results of the Fall in nature include predatory animals and natural disasters.