Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/05/2011 3:53:28 PM PST by Olympiad Fisherman
Over the last decade, many evangelical Christians have embraced the doctrine called creation care, which uses a scriptural basis to promote good stewardship of the earth and its resources. For these believers, problems like climate change threaten to greatly intensify third-world poverty, making actions to reduce global warming emissions an urgent Christian issue.
“We are convinced that evangelicals must engage this issue without any further lingering over the basic reality of the problem or humanity’s responsibility to address it,” hundreds of evangelical leaders declared in a 2006 statement on climate change.
But while a growing number of local and national nonprofit groups have formed to spread the “creation care” message, an increasingly fierce backlash against the mingling of Christianity and environmentalism has emerged from other quarters of the evangelical movement.
Leading the Christian counterargument on the environment is the Cornwall Alliance, an evangelical nonprofit that strenuously opposes action on climate change and describes the environmental movement as a “false religion” that Christians must avoid at all costs.
This December, the group released a 12-part educational video series, “Resisting the Green Dragon,” warning Christians that radical environmentalism “is striving to put America, and the world, under its destructive control ...
(Excerpt) Read more at green.blogs.nytimes.com ...
This is what happens when evangelicals jump on the secular bandwagon. Their job is to spread the Gospel message. Leave that and it turns into quicksand.
They have?
There’s been some linguistic drift in recent years. Last week I read this article that referred to “Catholic nuns and other Evangelicals” ~ which was just too cute for words.
We are to be good stewards of that which we have dominion over, but we are to only worship the Creator and not the creation. Some seem to get confused on that point.
Amen.
The Apostle Paul, being not confused as to the purpose of his calling, said “I am determined to know nothing among you save Christ, and him crucified.”
Amen.
...Romans 1:25 "...Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [creation] more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen..."
Being good stewards of the creation that God put into subjection to us is one thing, out and out Gaia worship - and believing in AGW climate change myths is something else...
And another thing, Good Stewards should be able to use DDT to control the 'thorns and thistles' of the fallen creation...
I’m not sure that what you’re reading is what I’m reading. This article states that the evangelicals are resisting the green movement, not assisting it.
I have been trying to get some of my Sunday School members to understand the fact that when God remakes the Earth in the Book of Revelation, there is no great rapture of Blue Whales, or polar bears, or dogs, or kittens or anything else. It all gets burned up. That is why we are told not to put our faith in things on earth. They are all going away.
Only one thing that man made which will be in Heaven.
The holes in Jesus’ hands, feet and sides. That will be the only work of “man” in Eternity.
Yes, they have.
Yes, but they have also been forced to fight them over this thing called creation care - an green trojan horse inside the church.
Keep in mind that the Millennial Kingdom will be populated with animals (for example - Isaiah 11:1-10), and I suspect the same will be true in the new heavens and the new earth as well (Revelation 21-22)since they are trees and water mentioned. I think Christians also need to be wary of a Greek view of heaven that places us on floating clouds in the sky playing our harpsicords forever. Heaven will be a very robust busy place, full of nations, commerce, trade, and I believe animals too.
The command given to Adam & Eve in Genesis 1 was to subdue and fill the earth. At the time the command was issued, that meant to convert the wilderness into a garden, with Eden serving as the model or guide to follow. After the fall into sin, however, as the very ground was cursed, this was no longer possible. Yet the command to subdue and fill the earth remains and was never rescinded. However, since nature is now cursed, man is disciplined in the process as he tries to subdue and fill the earth. Corruption and pollution are all a part of this process just as surely as weeds, thorns, and bad soils have created a lot of blood, sweat, and tears over the centuries and millenia.
As a subpoint, and as a farmer, I can rest assure you that animals love gardens more than they love the wilderness. the wilderness is not a pleasant place to live even for the animals. Furthermore, wild animals heading for the ‘protection’ of the wilderness was certainly intensified after the Flood in Genesis 9 when God intervened and caused the animals to be fearful of man.
Our mandate is make disciples, which also transcends evangelism. Christians are to become learners and practitioners of the gospel of grace.
Why are evangelicals even mentioned if they weren’t involved in it in the first place? They were involved. Why do evangelicals have to form a coalition to oppose climate change issues?
Read the first two paragraphs. Evangelicals were involved in promoting climate change issues. Evangelicals have a purpose and it is not to use their energies to combat or promote climate change issues. The goal of evangelicals should be to spreading the Gospel message and leave the climate to God who is in control of it no matter what man says or promotes.
All just a sign of the growing totalitarian times we live in.
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