Creation Care: The Scriptures

Like torture, here are some things I've been looking at along the way.


Genesis 1:28 “God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 3:23 “Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.”
Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.”
Hebrews 2:8 “You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.”

John Chrysostom “A steward’s duty is to administer well the things that have been entrusted to him. The things of the master’s are not the steward’s but the reverse—what is his really belongs to his master.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer “In the sweat of his brow man wrests his nourishment from the soil, and the range of human labour soon embraces everything from agriculture and economy to science and art. The labour which is instituted in Paradise is a participation by man in the action of creation. By its means there is created a world of things and values which is designed for glorification and service of Jesus Christ.”
Norman Geisler “Like everything else, Christian ecology flows out of Christian theology. Our view of the world flows out of our worldview. Since biblical Christianity has a theistic worldview, it will be distinct from both materialism and pantheism…a Christian view of the environment grows out of the doctrine of creation.”
John Piper: “There are behaviors that destroy the environment. And Christians should make a case from Scripture that God means for us not to burn the house down that he gave us to live in.”