Exteme environmentalism

[brakelite2]

Everything in creation, from animal to insect life, from plant life to birds, exists for the purpose of providing for another form of life. Thus was the ideal for all mankind also. Sin made man selfish. Only man lives to himself. Jesus came to show that love is the only true way - self sacrificial love. To take on Christ's image or to become Christ-like in our own nature means we must be born again for our own nature cannot be repaired or fixed, it must be put to death and a new creation to replace the old.
This I believe is the true meaning of "becoming one with nature". We provide for the needs of others just as nature does. Environmentalism I have found in it's more extreme form,is inherently selfish. Greenies seek to protect the environment that they themselves may survive. They actually see men as the enemy; they claim it is man destroying the environment through pollution causing global warming and would prefer that mankind be drastically reduced in population for self-survival.
This concept is an enemy to the gospel.

 

[Momentum]

Paul wrote something like this in Romans 1:26

which says
25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creatorâ€â€who is forever praised. Amen.

 

[LostSoul]

Everything in creation, from animal to insect life, from plant life to birds, exists for the purpose of providing for another form of life. Thus was the ideal for all mankind also. Sin made man selfish. Only man lives to himself. Jesus came to show that love is the only true way - self sacrificial love. To take on Christ's image or to become Christ-like in our own nature means we must be born again for our own nature cannot be repaired or fixed, it must be put to death and a new creation to replace the old.
This I believe is the true meaning of "becoming one with nature". We provide for the needs of others just as nature does. Environmentalism I have found in it's more extreme form,is inherently selfish. Greenies seek to protect the environment that they themselves may survive. They actually see men as the enemy; they claim it is man destroying the environment through pollution causing global warming and would prefer that mankind be drastically reduced in population for self-survival.
This concept is an enemy to the gospel.

While I do agree that a hateful attitude towards mankind is well....wrong. I do believe we as people, were placed on this earth to take care of God's living things. For did not God after all charge Adam with the naming and overseeing of all God's creation?

Like exploring other religions, I do feel this too has its boundaries and things we need to be mindful of so that we are not serving the enemy. At the same time, I do not think it is completely wrong as a whole to be a little concerned for the life around us that is without doubt deminishing at our hands. For I will admit it pains me to live in a world where animals are disappearing and the same with trees and the like. Though I do know we use some of these for food and the like...I feel it is more of the sport that is wrong. Guess what I am trying to say here...is it depends on the stand point. For I do not feel that God is completely against us caring about the world around us, but the attitude in which we do it in.

 

[therealsuperman64]

I always knew something wasn't right with those "Save the Earth" groups