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Article: God's creation: everything comes from and is returned to the Lord.(FOR THE RECORD)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Forty years ago I remember doing elementary school projects on pollution, cutting out pictures from Time and the other news magazines that came into our house.
So, why are we still facing this issue of global warming? We can't claim we didn't understand what we were doing to the environment.
And where was the church? Indeed, where is the church?
Of all the issues that gripped Christianity in my youth, I don't recall environmentalism being high among them.
It's hardly surprising then that secular society has its own sharp critique of Christianity, pointing out that at the very beginning of our scriptures, God gives humankind "dominion" ...