Summary: We Hug Trees For Christianity

What are the obstacles in our churches that keep creation care detained and how could this impact the advance of the gospel? There are many obstacles that holding the church back from being a helping hand in the care of creation. In an article called We Hug Trees for Jesus we find a number of issues that face the church today. First we see there is a problem with how “Christian Environmentalist” relay our Biblical responsibility to the earth. Second though they are passionate about the need to take care of the earth they can come across to strong trying to force others into believing what they say is true without first forming a relationship with them. Third using scare tactics like global warming in order to prove their theory or theories in order to get the attention of the people, thus impacting both the spread of the gospel and misleading others in the hermeneutics of the Bible. It’s is my opinion that the way environmentalist (both professional, and non-professional) go about using scripture to prove their case is wrong. First you cannot take a passage like Romans 1:20 which says: “For since the …show more content…
Global warming has been used in so many articles to show that the effects of emissions, and pollution are killing the earth. One of the scares I remember reading about was focused on the icebergs melting and raising the sea level. People were raising awareness that the ice was melting off little by little each year and if they continued the world would be submerged under water due to global warming. Is it true that the ice is melting? Undoubtedly, but will they melt off enough to flood the earth by no means, in the book of Genesis God makes a promise with the rainbow (which we still see today) as a sign that He will never again destroy the whole earth by a