On the one hand, we have this:
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Then there’s this:
I have often heard theologians say that all creation “fell” when Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating of the fruit of the tree that was forbidden them. That seems to me an utterly simplistic and useless understanding of what has happened….
The first is Romans 8:18-21 (NIV), words of the Apostle Paul. The latter are the words of an Episcopal bishop, Carolyn Tanner Irish of Utah. Make of it what you will.
(Via T19.)
Posted by David Fischler 
