Originally posted by Gold Dragon:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Martin:
Considering the fact that the current creation is cursed and to be burned with fire (see 2Pet 3:10-12, Rev 21:1, etc) I don't see any justification for getting side tracked by enviormentalism. And that is exactly what this is...a distraction. NO PLACE, may I repeat that? No place in Scripture are we called to "save the enviroment". Period. Should we take care of it? Yes. I am a asthmatic so I certainly want clean air. However, and this is a big however, we should not get sidetracked with this issue. We, the church, need to be concerned with eternal matters not temporary stuff like enviormentalism (or political activism of any sort).
In fact I will go so far as to say that this is just another tool that is used by these popular preachers to avoid the Gospel. It is alot easier to preach a watered down, greasy grace "gospel" and then turn to politics or enviromentalism than it is to preach the Biblical Gospel! After all the former will get you a much larger audience than the latter. We need to be concerned with eternal souls not trees and whales. Sure we should take care of animals (etc) but we should not get overly distracted by it.
Beyond that "global warming" is not a fact. Like evolution it is a theory. The "fact" is that we have not been keeping records long enough to know alot about larger cycles (etc) the earth may go through. Also there are other things that maybe responsible, in part, for any warming that goes on.
Bottom line: this is just another distraction.
It is sad that, yet again, the popular evangelical church is falling hook line and sinker for yet another fad distraction. Whether it is the "Prayer of Jabez", "The Purpose Driven Life", "Left Behind", "The Passion", "Dr Laura", "Tales Of Narnia", or any other passing fad, the popular evangelical movement is more than willing to run to the stores and eat up these things with little to no Biblical discernment. It is sad.
Martin.