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Nature and Creation
Richard H. Hiers
其他書名
Biblical Perspectives on Life Here on Planet Earth
出版Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023-04-18
主題Religion / Religion & ScienceReligion / EthicsReligion / Christian Theology / General
ISBN16667577809781666757781
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jEi8EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋People have lived on Earth since before recorded history, depending on nature to provide for, and clean up after them. But Nature cannot do it all anymore. Too many people, too much trash, and too much toxic waste. People have long lived in interdependence with other living things. Yet humans now degrade and destroy the global environment that nurtures all species—including human beings.



Human activities contaminate earth, air, and sea, causing thousands of species to go extinct. Rising global heat produces vicious cycles of catastrophic drought, fires, horrific storms, floods, famines, and massive migrations by desperate climate refugees. We don’t hear much anymore about man’s “conquest of nature.” Nature—God’s creation—now clearly has the last word.



Contrast the theocentric faith and ethics embedded in the Old and New Testaments. Here the good world that God created, and continues to create, was made to be shared with all other living things. All alike are made from the earth and destined to return to it. Humans were meant to till the soil, appreciate, enjoy, and care for life around them, and trust their Creator for what is yet to be.