No, no, no!
The Bible is full of affirmations about the goodness of creation: from the
outset it was 'very good' in the eyes of God. The Garden of Eden is about human
fallibility, about humans being cut off from God, not from nature.
Nor is nature ultimately condemned. Read Colossians 1! All things are to be
reconciled.....and the Hebrew means just that - 'all things'.
Not all Christians agree with this interpretation, of course - see H Paul
Santmire's excellent The Travail of Nature.
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Tim Cooper
Christian Ecology Link
UK
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