Here’s the problem with the “mankind polluted the earth” argument: Mankind didn’t pollute the earth.
What I mean to say is, mankind did not pollute the earth in the way in which environmentalists wish to suggest. The entire “Global warming” and “overpopulation” hysteria is based on fallacies.
I don’t wish for you to misunderstand. God commanded us to be good stewards, but the Lord isn’t returning to earth because man polluted it. Jesus is returning as judge because of mankind’s sins and rejection of God. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, their sin caused all of creation to suffer. It was not due to mans pollution destroying the environment.
Aronofsky is categorically wrong. He simply couched his environmental message in a story by exploiting a biblical event. He tried to make it palatable to people of faith, but the food is rotten.
I don't want to beat them up or support them, but instead find a way to see a positive in their negative while I forgive them their trespasses. They know not what they do. "Pray for their blessing and correction and let it go" is what I trying to teach myself to do.
The environmental pollution we are both speaking of, while observing history and the events of the day from that certain point of view I was referring to, is not something the EPA deals with.
We are to be good stewards of the Earth and the rest of creation, but that won't be the reason for His ultimate cleansing. That will have little to do with water or quality, population, etc., though those things can be a symptom of the reason.
In other words, the similarity stops at environment and what you mean by "environment" and the nature of the pollution.
Yes, the environment is polluted, and we did the polluting, but without the eyes to see it, the EPA and the rest are oblivious to why the place got flooded in Noah's day or why our story ends with a different cleansing.
Only a few pages left. Be ready to greet the One who will come like a thief in the night.