This time around, I would like to post a question, rather than a random thought. Actually, by posting a question, I've already posted a random thought but in a question format. Anyways, here it goes.
Are we doing our job?
Job Description: Gen 2:15 - "to work and to take care of it"
It seems like wherever humans are, the environment will become worse, no matter it is Greenland or Toronto. From what I heard from the news, the area between North and South Korea, in Chinese it's called "three eight line" literally, has been out of reach of humans for 70 years (or something like that). Now, it is a treasure of wild life and is very beautiful.
We, human, are called to work and take care of the world. Are we failing our job? Why?
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To put my tentative answer in a short form, Yes! we failed and did so miserably, yet... be careful of what we were told, something like this: it would be better for the earth if the human species disappears from the surface of the earth from now on.
ReplyDeleteSuch statement is influenced by "Deep Ecology", something that is totally contrary to the Christian theology of creation...
Just looking at the biblical text, the Creation account has a garden at the beginning, something of "culture", or the result of human interacting with the created nature, and that is with God's blessings and good intention. And look at what will be in place at the end: A City, obviously a culturally intensive result of human activities... for more of this, read a recent book by Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling; also my professor John Stackhouse at Regent takes a similar stand, in his Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World. Another great one, a must read in this subject, is NT Wright's Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. Oh, one more: Chris Wright's Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative. I guess I have said too much for now.
Thx Samuel for the comment. There's no such thing as too much.
ReplyDeleteI personally think the core of the problem is most humans are self-centered and consume more than they need. Being self-centered, we readily exploit everything to our benefit. Natural resource is merely our tools. As opposed to work and take care, we use and exploit. By consuming more than we need, we create more garbage than the natural process can decompose. Or we make things that are hard to be decomposed.
What does it mean to us as Christians to be called to work and take care? In what way we should live to work towards the calling?