“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22
This is bound to be a popular topic, so let me say right from the outset that having read about ‘climate change’ and considering what the Bible says, what follows is simply my opinion on the matter.
Firstly, what does the Bible say?
1. God created the earth and set man over it to care for it and work it (Ps. 24:1, Gen. 1:28, Gen. 2:15).
2. The earth will endure because God sustains it (Col. 1:16-17, Gen. 8:22).
3. The earth will be destroyed, but not by man (2 Pet. 3:5-7, Rev. 16:8-9).
4. God will create a new earth (Isa. 64:17).
Secondly, what are the issues with Christians jumping on the climate change bandwagon? One of the biggest issues I have is that much of the thrust behind it is the worship of ‘Mother Nature’. For a Christian, this is bordering on idolatry. The first of the Ten Commandments is to have no other gods before God. Romans 1:25 says that worshipping the creation rather than the Creator is a characteristic of unbelievers who have been deceived. It’s easy to see how climate change is being billed as a great crisis which the whole world needs to unite together to fight against – thus possibly paving the way for a one-world government, founded on a one-world religion. Indeed, even today there are ‘interfaith’ organisations such as the ‘Christian-Muslim Youth Forum on Climate Change’. It is my strong belief that these are not organisations that believers should be a part of.
This is a summary of what I think. Each person should read into the issue and decide for themselves, whether climate change is actually happening or not.* Whatever conclusion you draw, don’t let the environment become an idol. We are not to abuse the environment, but we are not to worship it either. Ultimately God is in control.
*I would strongly recommend Michael Crichton’s book, State of Fear, which documents much of the scientific literature on this subject in a very readable form.
GOD controls all things according to his will.I think the same people who think humans evolved from primordial goo, are the ones who believe we can control the climate.Sometime when you have an open mind,look at gods creations which are all around us,and really think about how these things came to be.Do you really believe a big bang created all this?
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