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Environmental
Movement
Much of the environmental
movement has gotten back to its pagan roots as it subtly fosters rejection of
the Bible and Christianity.
So called Spiritual Greens tell us that
Earth can save herself - she has the wisdom and power - humans don't. But we
can help her by becoming conscious of the oneness and sacredness of all her
parts.
To the extent the environmental movement embraces the
philosophies of the New Age movement - it joins in that part of a conspiracy to
control the American People, to derail and disempower traditional Christianity,
and to deceive the world into adopting Anti-Christian views.
The New Age movement generally
advocates a synthesis or recovery of ideas and practices which celebrates our
relationship with the Earth. (There are sub-currents in the New Age movement
which include overt Satanic practices and those are definitely in conflict with
Christian beliefs.)
The Sierra
Club
The Sierra Club Environmental
Health Sourcebook, Well Body, Well Earth, tells us to "turn to the
traditions of ancient cultures" such as Buddhist meditations and Native
American Hopi rituals in order to "reaffirm our bond with the spirit of the
living earth." "The more you contact the voice of the living Earth and
evaluate what it says, the easier it will become for you to contact it and
trust what it provides."
That the granddaddy of environmental action
agencies, the Sierra Club, would publish a source book recommending our
communicating with the "spirit of the earth" is cause for Christians to be on
the alert for satanic deception in the environmental movement.
Spiritual Greens take offense at
the Christian belief that people are the most valuable of God's creation on
earth. They believe that anthropocentrism (believing that everything revolves
around mankind) is a curse on the earth. Their belief is that since everything
on earth is connected and interdependent, no one element is more valuable than
another.
In the New Age environmentalists view, starvation, plagues,
and death are blessings that simply buy more time for planet Earth. They are
pantheistic; their god is an impersonal god, who resides passively in every
fiber of the universe; to them, to destroy a plant is to destroy their god; to
decimate the quality of human life, on the other hand, is of no concern,
because humanity represents the greatest danger to the rest of creation.
Greens in all categories generally agree on one point: Today's
ecological crises is rooted in Christian traditions. They tell us:
- The Judeo/Christian belief that God assigned man to "rule
over" the earth has caused us to explit and abuse it.
- Monotheism (one God) separated humans from their ancient
connection to the earth. To reverse the trend, storytellers and artists must
revive earth-centered myth and reconnect us to Earth's spirit.
- The diversity of species enriches the earth. Healthy,
flourishing diversity requires a substantial decrease in the human population
and its interference with nature's processes.
- Heavenly minded Christians care little for a temporary
earth.
- By resisting the return of earth-centered religions,
Christians block the global movement toward the one-world religion needed to
unify people and save the earth.
The Gospel
According to Al Gore |
Ownership vs. Stewardship
Some environmentalists claim the traditional
Christianity cosmology or world view has been and largely remains domination of
the Earth. The first two chapters of Genesis have been interpreted as the
source of mans 'right' to do as we wish to the Earth. The original concept put
forth in Genesis is one of stewardship, not ownership, and certainly not
domination.
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the
ground.” [Genesis 1:28] |
A major factor in why peoples
all over the world are embracing the concepts of the New Age and
environmentalism is the failure of traditional Christianity to adequately
communicate a rational view of the Earth.
Undeniably, the earth has
suffered much abuse under the pretext of biblical sanction. Human greed often
twists Scripture to suit its own ends. The answer to this regrettable situation
is not to abandon biblical truth for pagan mythology. We must recover a
biblical appreciation for creation and man's role in it, without falling into
the opposite and more damning error of worshipping the creature rather than the
Creator.
Historical Christianity, having established mans
supremacy over the Earth, tends to be anthropocentric where man is the center
of Gods' creation. Perhaps we need a Christian Copernicus who can adequately
extol Colossians 1:17. This verse makes it clear that Christ, not man, is the
center of Gods creation much in the same way a hub holds the spokes of a wheel
together.
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He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.-
[Colossians 1:17] |
The Bible does indicate that man has a special purpose
to fulfill in expressing God. Careful reading of Genesis also reveals that God
told Noah to save the animals as well as his family. Noah's Ark demonstrates
the care and love God has for all of His creatures. An examination of the Greek
New Testament text indicates that Christ died on behalf of everything (not just
every man) and that the entire creation groans awaiting the manifestation of
the sons of God.
The relationship of the Christian to the Earth is
an area in need of serious prayer and action by all believers. Not since the
Middle Ages have Christian thinkers influenced the believers through their
experiences of the Earth.
People like Francis of Assisi, Meister
Eckhert, and Hildegard of Bingen extolled the integrity of God expressed in the
Creation. Jesus and the prophets spent much time in the wilderness because they
understood the Earth holds an unadulterated quality in which the presence of
God can easily be experienced. What have we learned from Jesus when most
Christian meetings are inside an artificial air-conditioned environment with
four walls and plastic plants in the corner? To aboriginal peoples, the entire
creation is a sanctuary for worship.
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