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Monday, June 15, 2009

Why would God put us in charge?

In recent years, scholars have pointed to a custom found in the ancient world where a king who rules over large domains places an image of himself in distant regions. That image functions as a representative of the king in that location. Accordingly, it is suggested that human beings are like images of God the king, representing God on Earth.
If that is the case, then the image of God is not so much something distinctive within humans, but rather a distinctive function that humans may perform as representatives acting on God’s behalf. The question then becomes, what is that function?
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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+