Faith Cross Supporter Pastor/Line Supervisor at a car parts factory

The phrase 'all of creation' does mean exactly that; all of creation. Just as everything that was made was subject to death after Adam's fall in the garden of Eden, and all elements of earth has been tainted by man's sins, (vs. 20), so will earthly matter receive freedom when Christ returns to restore all things unto Himself. (vs 23)

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Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

My opinion is that "all creation" could be human beings or all of life. See the different translations of Romans 8:22 --


ROMANS 8:22

KJ21
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

AMPC
We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now.

ERV
We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain like a woman ready to give birth to a child.
EHV
For we know that all of creation is groaning with birth pains right up to the present time.
childbirth until now.
EXB
We know that ·everything God made [all creation] has been ·waiting until now in pain, like a woman ready to give birth [L groaning with labor pains until now].
GNV
For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain together unto this present.
GW
now.
ISV
For we know that all the rest of creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time.
PHILLIPS
TLB
For we know that even the things of nature, like animals and plants, suffer in sickness and death as they await this great event.
MSG
NCV
NLV
We know that everything on the earth cries out with pain the same as a woman giving birth to a child.

NTE
Let me explain. We know that the entire creation is groaning together, and going through labor pains together, up until the present time.
OJB
For we have da’as that the whole Bri’ah groans and suffers the chevlei leydah (pangs of childbirth) until now.
TPT
To this day we are aware of the universal agony and groaning of creation, as if it were in the contractions of labor for childbirth.


[Rom 8:22] Father, When Shall All The Weary Earth
Father, when shall all the weary earth
Cease from sighing and ring out its mirth?
Triumph in its grand, immortal birth,
Into wondrous life with God.

Refrain

Christ is coming as the King of kings;
Shout, ye ransomed, o’er the grace He brings;
Hark! The whole earth with the welcome rings,
Hallelujah, praise His Name!

Savior, when shall my poor sinful soul
On Thee all its sins and sorrow roll?
Know Thy full salvation and be whole?
When, my Jesus, wilt Thou come?

Refrain

Enter now upon Thy glorious reign!
Come and raise to life what sin hath slain!
O’er my heart and o’er the world regain
Thy dominion! Jesus, come!

Christ is coming as the King of kings;
Shout, ye ransomed, o’er the grace He brings;
Hark! The whole earth with the welcome rings,
Hallelujah, praise His Name!

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