How The Universe Received An Expiration Date

God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.

Genesis 1:26–28 amp

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 2:15–17 amp

And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat [of the fruits] of it all the days of your life.

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God gave specific instructions to the man but left out some important details. When God said that Adam would surely die if he ate of the tree, he made no mention of what would happen to all the creation under his command. At the moment, Adam may not have considered the full extent of sin’s impact. Still, based on evidence in the Scriptures, it’s apparent that God has the tendency to extend the judgment of sin beyond the individuals directly involved. He began that pattern in Genesis 3:17 when He cursed the ground because of Adam’s sin.

For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it--[yet] with the hope that nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God's children.
Romans 8:20-21 amp

In Romans 8:20–21, we can see a concise statement detailing the effects of Adam’s sin on creation. Even though nature on its own did nothing to deserve it, God responded harshly by putting an end to the delightful, perfect conditions of Eden. Instantly, entropy was introduced and the concept of perfection became a figment of our imagination. Now everything on earth is in bondage to decay and corruption. Nothing is perpetual, and most of our “sustainable” systems consume more energy than they produce.

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines entropy as “the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity or a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder.”

Entropy is a type of slow death. The effects of sin were instant for Adam but not instantly apparent. Instead of everything coming to a screeching halt at the moment of disobedience, he and his wife only noticed that they were naked in Genesis 3:7. What they did not perceive was the advent of the slow process of death that affected every earthly system. Fortunately, God had a plan of redemption.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23 kjv