robert and benita rabello wrote: >GREAT BIG SNIP > For if God is the creator of the earth, who are WE to destroy it? > If we claim to follow Jesus Christ, we should DO what he did, and our > attitudes should be in harmony with his. I can search the scriptures > from beginning to end and find no evidence that God advocates the > destruction of the earth (in fact, the concept of judgment and > destruction by fire that is so often touted to dismiss calls for > environmental action are coupled with the idea that the destruction is > caused by our own actions. It's "every man's sword against his > brother." There are MANY examples of this scattered throughout the > text.), yet many of the naysayers who claim to be Christ's followers > ridicule the concept of global warming because the mounting evidence of > climate change SHOULD compel us to turn away from our greedy > exploitation of resources and the heaping of luxuries into our own > laps. This is really a form of idolatry, using scriptural language, and > though we are destroying the earth by what we're doing, we refuse to > repent . . .
AMEN. Along those lines; Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Now, where it says, "rape, pillage, ruin and destroy and then move on," I haven't figured out yet. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
