Reply #43: Tend the garden Adam, don't waste it. [View All]

[ArthurRuger]

The closest thing I've seen to a biblical justification for exploiting and abusing the environment is the Genesis command to multiply and replenish the earth and to exercise dominion over it found in the first chapers of Genesis.

What we're doing to the planet today and what the current administration has done about it while they've been the responsible party of control is the equivalent of perceiving that God filled the banquet table with all the food needed without understanding that the food was for a banquet and that after the dining, we would be on our own -expected to fill our own tables in the future.

God did not give us a fish. He expected us to learn to fish. He didn't give us turnips, he gave us turnip seeds.

He also didn't command us to form fish and turnip seed corporations to dominate our self-sustaining efforts at the expense of common sense. Otherwise, why did he create spawning grounds for more fish to appear and inspire us to learn crop rotation?

And if Jesus had commanded Christians to exploit the environment he wouldn't have talked of lilies of the field as he did. He would have told them to plow up the lilies, build housing projects, drill for oil, mine for metal or some other thing men have come up with to make land yield a profit.

And like you, I'd like to see any of those born-again anti-environment politicians tell me that environmentally we have nothing to worry about because if we fubar it badly enough, Mr. LaHaye's fantasy includes the promise that Jesus will sweep it all clean, whitewash the fences anew, flush the water sources clean, refreeze the polar caps and glaciers, smile in amusement at foolish mankind while he restores the forests with a magical sweep of his hand, like superman, suck all the pollution out of the air and in one gigantic whoosh spew it out of his mouth into outer darkenss.