Why Do Animals Suffer If We Are The Ones That Sinned? A Brief Note.

As to animal suffering. If we consider Origenian theology we can reconcile this by suggesting that suffering is related to what in Isaiah 66:1 and Psalm 110 refer to as the footstool. The earth is God's footstool. In short, the footstool is this physical, three-dimensional space of existence that divine beings created by God were meant to 'walk' on. However, due to our 'missteps' 'sin' we fell, and thus crawl through the footstool as one crawls on the floor when fallen rather than walking on it. It could be the case that the suffering of animals is the result of a divine being, being partially instantiated in the footstool, just as one gets stuck in mud when they fall, until God, through Christ, picks them up and stands them upright. Therefore, it could be the case that animals are partially instantiated divine beings whose level of consciousness is based on the level at which they fell into the footstool, and the pain they feel is the inappropriate relationship they have with the world and they 'await' being lifted back up. The pain is their own fault, which due to the fall they can't fully recollect. But in spite of this, all will be made new as per Revelations 21:5. Now as to Jesus placing the demons in the pig. I don't think Jesus intended the pigs to jump off of the cliff. However, the demons themselves made the pigs fall. But it is possible to find deeper questions in this example through our own eating of other animals. I would argue that oftentimes in order to maintain a footstool existence, the material of the footstool must be maintained through uncovering that material from other souls through the process of killing for life. It isn't God sanctioned, but rather a practical strategy for footstool survival. And so, animals' 'sin' is their sharing in the same act of 'falling' onto the footstool (just as one falls who is not watching where they are going and trips) as us. The variation of species is in their level of fallenness (which dictates how conscious they are of their footstool surroundings) and the variety of features reflects the degree to which they are 'covered in' footstool material. If just a knee, possibly an insect. If an entire torso, perhaps a reptile. If most of the divine being except the face is up out of the footstool, maybe a mammal. This is just an hypothesis. But it solves the hypothetical problem of animal suffering.