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What does Bible say about caring for the environment

What does Bible say about caring for the environment. 4 Biblical Reasons to Care for the Environment. Is Creation Important to God?. Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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What does Bible say about caring for the environment

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  1. What does Bible say about caring for the environment

  2. 4 Biblical Reasons to Care for the Environment . . .

  3. Is Creation Important to God? • Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. • John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word (Jesus) . . . He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. • Psalm 24: The earth is the lords and everything in it, the world and all who live in it

  4. How Important is Creation to God? • Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. . . . all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. • Job 38&39: "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?. . . 5Who marked off its dimensions? . . . I said, . . .‘here is where your proud waves halt'? 12"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place . . . 25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, 26to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it, 27to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? . . . 35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? . . . 41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out? • Psalm 65: You care for the land and water it, You enrich it abundantly

  5. Is our well being connected to the environment? • Genesis: We’re created from dust; share animals food; created on the same day; have the same breath of life as animals; • Gen 1:26-28 We are stewards • Gen 2:15: God put man in the garden to serve, protect and nurture it. • Hosea 4:1-3 The land mourns and all who live in it waste away.

  6. Loving our neighbours . . . • Mark 12: 30: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength and love your neighbour as yourself” • What does this mean in todays globally connected world? What does it mean in the context of climate change and environmental damage?

  7. Implications for our future • Rev 21:1: Then I saw a new (renewed) heaven and a new (renewed) earth • Romans 8:19-21: creation waits with eager longing . . . in hope that the it will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into glorious freedom

  8. What can we do? • Pray/ repent! • Live simply/ sustainably • Share our story/ Advocacy • Low carbon development • Climate Change Adaptation • Environmental Audit

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