In Genesis 2:15, the Bible states, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it”. Genesis 1:28 similarly addresses “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground”. Based on the biblical text, it is evident that man holds a responsibility to not only upkeep the land but have dominion over it as well. With such a powerful duty, there is no doubt that man could stray away from his religious responsibility and act in a manner which only encourages selfishness and recklessness, which, he has. The current biblical, and even more so the palpable state of Earth and its resources illustrates the same negligence to which the story of Adam and Eve expressed, eating
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1). The Book of Psalms demonstrates this value in 145:16-17, “You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made”. Controversy over the true “worth” that caring for the environment has originates amongst the philosophy of Plato, influenced by Gnostic view (ARC, 2014, p. 1). Plato’s philosophy which tends to linger amongst modern Christians is that the physical world is not of man’s concern because the spiritual world contains all that is good, where Earth is simply a pit stop on the way to Heaven. Unfortunately, what these modern Christians don’t recognize is that although the Second Commandment states, “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them” (Exod. 20:4-5), God created nature, therefore values it as he does all of his creation (ARC, 2014, p.
1). The Book of Psalms demonstrates this value in 145:16-17, “You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made”. Controversy over the true “worth” that caring for the environment has originates amongst the philosophy of Plato, influenced by Gnostic view (ARC, 2014, p. 1). Plato’s philosophy which tends to linger amongst modern Christians is that the physical world is not of man’s concern because the spiritual world contains all that is good, where Earth is simply a pit stop on the way to Heaven. Unfortunately, what these modern Christians don’t recognize is that although the Second Commandment states, “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them” (Exod. 20:4-5), God created nature, therefore values it as he does all of his creation (ARC, 2014, p.