March 10, 2010
Outside Looking In
I met a man who is a self-described land conservation activist. I’ve always found it strange that preserving a wilderness area often means that very few can enjoy what is preserved. God created His model of conservation when He put Adam in the Garden of Eden to care for it. Certainly conservationists might argue that they too are taking care of the land by making laws restricting access to the general population. Today’s environmentalist would certainly protect the garden by banning Adam and Eve. Oh wait…that’s exactly where they found themselves because they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Gail;
-----God told Adam to “...fill the earth and subdue it...” To subdue is as far from conserving as to have dominion is from surrendering. Conquering and bringing under subjection and control from exertion of the will by clearing, cultivating, and building upon it is to subdue. God’s selection of this simple term for His Word clearly indicates the earth was given for man’s use. His expression at Gen 1:28 implies the exact opposite of man being created for the earth’s care. Conservation is only as much a part of subduing as not wasting is a part of wisely using.
-----However, the attitude of the environmental craze rejects this perspective of conservation. It can not admit to the earth’s subjection to man because its spirit is of rebellion against God. Man is subject to the earth and must be subdued by it, in the heart of their thinking. That is diametrically opposed to the instruction God gave Adam. Examine a few of the strings forming the philosophical network into which environmental activism is tied. If they are not directly tied to the zero-population craze (a belief that our population must be reduced by two-thirds), then they certainly view the world as over populated. Did God not say, “...fill the earth?” So they generally are abortion fanatics. Did God not say, “Thou shalt not murder?” And because they perceive man’s threat to the world is so severe (in many ways true), they tend toward a global authority over the whole world. Did God not deal with global human government once at the Tower of Babel? And will He not deal with it again during the Tribulation? At the core of the environmentalist philosophy is the evolution of man from some lipid bubble enveloping a few nucleotides floating around in a mud puddle on mother earth. Well, I think you get the drift.
-----God meant man’s relationship to earth to be picturesque of God’s relationship with His heaven. Of course God does not wantonly consume and abuse His precious angels, nor their space. Neither should man wantonly consume and abuse the earth. But God is in directive control of heaven, bringing forth from it benefits for all and maintaining within it a fitly useful order. So also God expects man to do in subduing the earth.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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