I would add that if we destroy or deface creation, we reduce creation's
ability to praise and reveal the glory of God.The passenger pigeon was a
wonderful teatimony to the abilty of God to create beauty-until a bunch of
idiots with guns exterminated the species between 1750 and 1900.More idiots
with guns, poision, and bulldozers are busy eliminating even more
testimonies to the glory of God-often justifying it with more bad theology
about God not caring for his creation, so let's deface it and destroy it.
I believe that such people are far from the kingdom of God.
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Keith B Miller
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:40 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Theological basis for stewardship and creation care
This post is in response to Shuan's request for comments on the letter he
recieved dismissing environmental concerns as irrelevant to the gospel. I
include below notes from a class I taught awhile back on stewardship at our
church. I view stewardship as a comprehensive concept including all
aspects of practical living and the life of the mind. This post is long,
but I thought that most of it was relevant to the environmental issue and
to other issues recently discussed in this forum.
Keith
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Keith B. Miller
Department of Geology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
kbmill@ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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