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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Serpents of God

“Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.” Numbers 21: 6
Here we see the Lord using the serpents (snakes) for his own holy purpose. Not a particularly nice purpose, but still an example a) of how God can work through His creatures and b) of the fact that while the ‘serpent’ led Eve astray in the Garden of Eden, snakes are not essentially evil in any way. They were declared good along with the rest of creation when God created the earth, and in this passage they are chosen by God to serve his purpose and bring about his will and lesson to the people of Israel. 
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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+