Hi Gup,what makes you think plants, animals and ground were cursed by God?
Gen 3:14-21 NASB 14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." 16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you." 17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it';
Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. 18 "
Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." 20 Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all [the] living. 21
The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Instead of using the term atonement, use the term reconciliation. That is the actual meaning of the Greek word translated "atonement."
Ok... that seems harmless enough.
Rom 5:11
And not only this, but we also exult in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation.
Rom 11:15
For if their rejection is the
reconciliation of the world, what will
their acceptance be but life from the dead?
2Co 5:18
Now all
these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation,
2Co 5:19
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of
reconciliation.
And when did we "receive" the reconciliation, when Christ died or when God transferred us into Christ and we underwent the washing of regeneration?
Were we reconciled from our sin or from Adam's sin? Or both?
Rom 5:12-21 NASB 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned-- 13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16 The gift is not like [that which came] through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment [arose] from one [transgression] resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift [arose] from many transgressions resulting in justification. 17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. 18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. 19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. 20 The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So whereas one act of sin produced death for all, one act of righteousness produces life for all. But see it contrasts the righteousness of Christ with the sin in that there isjust ONE transgression yet the free gift of righteousness will cover MANY transgressions. It's covering something different than what caused it! If Christ's
reconciliation is covering the thing that caused death - the one transgression - then why doesn't it say the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but the free gift arose from one transgression resulting in justification?
It is because of righteousness that ALL are resurrected from Adam's judgment (Adam's judgement is repealed), but it is the many, individual sins which Christ's reconciliation and the gift of righteousness are meant to cover. It is the second judgment - the great white throne judgment - where that gift of righteousness is applied to us, not the original judgment of death. If Christ's righteousness doesn't cover that original judgment, then that judgment must be repealed and annulled somehow. If Christ's righteousness were to cover the one transgression, then it would affect everyone who was original affected by Adam's sin. It makes sense that, if Adam's judgment was a corporate judgement, and a single, righteous person existed, that judgment would need to be repealed so that individual judgments can take place. This would result in universal resurrection and a a lifting of the whole curse.