*Religious+perspectives?+(Creation+Care?)

=__Creation Care__ =

//The Earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof// - Psalm 24:1 For evangelical environmentalists, protecting earth is about more than the environment, its about sustaining our human relationship with the creator's creation (earth). The activists believe in their cause....


 * Because** we worship and honor the Creator, we seek to cherish and care for the creation.
 * Because** we have sinned, we have failed in our stewardship of creation. Therefore we repent of the way we have polluted, distorted, or destroyed so much of the Creator's work.
 * Because** in Christ God has healed our alienation from God and extended to us the first fruits of the reconciliation of all things, we commit ourselves to working in the power of the Holy Spirit to share the Good News of Christ in word and deed, to work for the reconciliation of all people in Christ, and to extend Christ's healing to suffering creation.
 * Because** we await the time when even the groaning creation will be restored to wholeness, we commit ourselves to work vigorously to protect and heal that creation for the honor and glory of the Creator, whom we know dimly through creation, but meet fully through Scripture and in Christ. We and our children face a growing crisis in the health of the creation in which we are embedded, and through which, by God's grace, we are sustained. Yet we continue to degrade that creation. (An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation - perhaps a WEBSITE link here? or citation?)

Man's dominion is under God's dominion. Nature does not belong to humans, it belongs to God. We are not to use nature intrinsically but as a thing borrowed or held in trust, and if we are contributing to the destruction of God's creation then these activists think we need to do something about it. (Francis Schaeffer - source? citation? ) They would like to extend their ethics to problems such as; land and water degredation, deforestation, animal extinction, global toxification, the alteration of the atmosphere, and human and cultural degredation. (Knell)