Science & Scripture

Romans

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New Testament · passages in Romans compared with current science.

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• Death did not exist anywhere on Earth until the first human committed a moral transgression about 6,000 years ago.

  Romans 5:12

  What it means: The fossil record is essentially a 3.8-billion-year catalog of death.

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• All suffering in nature — predation, disease, natural disasters — exists because of a curse placed on the entire planet due to human behavior.

  Romans 8:22

  What it means: Predation, disease, and natural disasters existed long before humans.

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• By the 1st century CE, a spoken message had already reached every person on every continent, including the Americas, Australia, and Pacific Islands.

  Romans 10:18

  What it means: Romans says the message had gone out into all the earth, to the ends of the world.

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