So... the 'little problem' then is that the spiritual death would mean an eternity in Hell after physical death? If the "Big" problem was just spiritual death, then Christ did not need go to the cross...and the Gospel becomes illogical.
No, spiritual death is the BIG problem. And yes you still need a sacrifice because to cover sin of another which is the physical death of an innocent individual. Sin causes separation from God (spiritual death). Sin is the big problem. That people die physically is a relatively minor side effect. I think you don't understand the gospel very well yourself.
And, I see that view of a perfect creation consistent with scripture and the nature of God.
But you don't know what "perfect" is. It's colored by a particular cultural view of what creation should be. Jews don't share this view and they have the same OT as we have they accept death as part of life from the beginning.
Evolutionary dogma believes in a God who 'created' through a process of pain, suffering, death and extinctions calling it "very good". The god of evolutionism is not the omnipotent, omniscient Holy God of the Bible.
Pain in and of itself is not evil, neither is suffering. But I think in an attempt to dismiss evolution, you miss the point that it is about survival and life persisting in the face of adversity. And as far as suffering goes, there may actually be less of it than you think for two reasons. Suffering requires very complex organisms, I would say it's a necessary outgrowth of complexity. For most of evolutionary history, organisms weren't complex. Secondly because of efficient predators in nature, death comes quickly to the injured or sick, unlike in modern medicine where we can prolong suffering for years and years.
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
So is YEC dogma better, that God punished all of creation (essentially re-creating it) in a physical sense to cause every possible negative event because one man sinned?
Again... This shows how evolutionism tosses out the Gospel.
You haven't shown that at all.
God tells us that the shedding of blood / death was the penalty for our sin. Only the innocent blood of the Lamb could pay the penalty for our sin. I can't take your penalty by dying for you Alate...I'm a sinner too.
Shedding of blood, (lamb, or The Lamb) certainly was not part of God's "very good" creation, but was a consequence of sin corrupting this world.
Not corrupting the world, for sin corrupting humankind. But the shedding of innocent blood to cover sin is important because sin causes separation from God (spiritual death).
