Thursday, August 28, 2014

Earth Day - a Christian's viewpoint

Everything that God created was "good". It was attested by none less than God Himself, and attested so many times during the Creation story - that He saw that whatever was being created was "good". "Good" - as in beautiful, perfect, complete, in harmony, and it served a divine purpose - everything was this way - even what we consider not of much worth - like - fruitless trees, wild animals, snakes..everything was "good" originally.

And He then made man the care-taker. So if today the Earth is messed up, we cannot walk away from the responsibility. Be kind and caring to the environment, use the world around us responsibly - its the only Christian way.

"The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister." ~GK Chesterton

(Ref: St.John Chrysostom - homilies on Genesis.)

(April 2013)

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