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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

God asks us to care for the animals.

As we have seen in the previous reflections, God made us neighbours, stewards and servant rulers of the animals. After God creates Adam, God declares that Adam needs helpers, so the animals are brought for Adam to name. This is significant. God creates the animals, but gets Adam to name them. Why? Think about the last time you bought a pet. How differently did you feel about that pet when it went from being ‘the puppy’ to being ‘Tessa’? Naming creates a loving bond between animals and humans, and God wants us to love all animals.
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Important Lessons from the Bible

Why Jesus came:
"that the world might be saved through him"
John 3:17

Who Jesus is going to use to save the world:
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."
Romans 8:19

Our role on earth:
"The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it."
Genesis 2:15

The Five Pillars of A Christian Theology of Sustainability

1. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of creation.

2. Covenantal Stewardship (we have a covenant with God as stewards of the earth).

3. The creation-fall-redemption paradigm (God made a good world; human failure broke the relationships between god, man and creation; Christ provides hope for all creation).

4.Bodily resurrection(we will rise with bodies, not as spirits)

5.New Creation (a new Heaven and new Earth refers to a renewal and an earthing of heaven, not starting over).

Adapted from When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Edited by R.J. Berry, Published by Inter-Varsity Press, 2007, Nottingham p43+