Creation not Macroevolution 6: The antediluvians' sins & non-human death before Adam

This is the 2nd in a trilogy of sermons by Gavin preached in connection with the Dedication of Vol. 2 of his old earth creationist book, "Creation, Not Macroevolution - Mind the Gap;" which as linked with his earlier Vol. 1 he has called "Creation not Macroevolution" 5,6, & 7. In the 1st part of this sermon Gavin considers the salvation of Noah by the covenant of grace, & antediluvians' sins of racially mixed marriages & violence in Gen. 6, & how some similar sins have now beset the Western World, much to its great spiritual & moral decay. Gavin links this spiritual & moral decay to a number of flow on consequences, including the fact that the types of problems we have in the formal academic literature on an issue like OT chronology, which is discussed in the 3rd sermon in this trilogy, is simply a microcosm of this macrocosmic problem of the Western World. In the 2nd part of the sermon, Gavin considers the issue of non-human death before Adam with some special reference to the views of young earth creationist, St. Basil the Great (d. 379), a champion of orthodoxy who believed in non-human death before Adam's fall, & on whose day of 14 June, Vol. 1 was dedicated earlier this year. He also refers to old earth creationist, Origen (d. 254) who was a mix of orthodoxy & unorthodoxy, but whose views on non-human death before Adam's fall were never condemned as unorthodox by the first 6 general councils, even though these councils did condemn the teachings of Origen where they were unorthodox. Thus in harmony with e.g. Rom. 5-8 & I Cor. 15, these councils recognized that for the purposes of orthodoxy the issue of Adam's fall is connected only to man's spiritual & physical death.