General - Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:08 - 1 Comment

Christians and the environment

…God treats His creation with integrity: each thing in its own order, each thing the way He made it. If God treats His creation in that way, should we not treat our fellow-creatures with a similar integrity? If God treats the tree like a tree, the machine like a machine, the man like a man, shouldn’t I, as a fellow-creature, do the same — treating each thing in integrity in its own order? And for the highest reason: because I love God — I love the One who has made it! Loving the Lover who has made it, I have respect for the thing He has made.

Dr. Schaeffer had an uncanny ability to learn broadly of history, deeply of the present, to provide insight into the current and future problems of our faith and culture. In his work Pollution and the Death of Man we are given an analysis of sorts to help the Christian understand how we are to understand the man-nature relationship of God’s creation: philosophically, theologically, and practically. Continue…