“Who owns

the earth?”

"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." Psalms 24:1

Psalms 104:25,30.

In wisdom you made them all, the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number - living things both large and small... When you send your Spirit, they are created and you renew the earth.

God Created the Earth and All of Nature in it

John 1:3. Through Him all things were made: without Him nothing was made that

has been made.

Colossians 1:16-17.

All things were created by Him and for Him.

He is before all things and

in Him all things hold together.

“founded the earth to endure’’ (Ps. 119:90-91).

What kind of world did God create?

What kind of world did God create? Laws of the Physical World

Everything follows the law.

What kind of world did God create?

The laws reflects the faithfulness of God.

Without the laws there would not be any certainity.

Life would not have been possible without it.

“maintained by your rulings” (Ps. 119:90-91).

Things coexist in intricate and regulated harmony.

This is the basic postulate of science and reason.

It is a world of bounty and harmony. Every constant is adjusted to create a coherent

universe to support life.

“while the earth remains, seed-time and harvest shall not cease”

(Gen. 8:22).

No physical hypothesis founded on any indisputable fact has yet explained the origin

of the primordial protoplasm, and, above all, of its marvellous properties, which render evolution possible—in heredity and in adaptability,

for these properties are the cause and not the effect of evolution. For the cause of this cause we have sought in vain among the physical forces which

surround us, until we are at last compelled to rest upon an independent volition, a far-seeing intelligent design

Gen 1:24-25 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds; cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.

And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind.

Sentient beings

which can use the law to their purpose

having a higher law within them

They are in a different dimension

Each dimension has its own law.

Gen 2:7 then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Gen 1:27 So God created man

in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Jewish mystic philosophy of how God

Creates, Forms, and Sustains this world,with its perceived multiplicity of objects & consciousnesses

out of His Pure Unity.

Four dimensions

of life

Inorganic

Microbes

Vegetation

Animals

Birds

Spirit beings

Sons of God

All these four dimensions form one unit organism.

They are interdependent.

Forms the extension of God

All these dimensions penetrate one into other to form one unity.

Eastern churches considers all the cosmos as part of God’s body.

God himself is unknowable (Blackness) and beyond understanding

Jaganath

The Indian representation of

The God of Creation

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have

dominion

over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

Gen 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.

"master it"

"The heavens are the Lord's heavens,

but the earth he has given to mankind." (Psalm 115:16)

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In the name of progress, the greed of man has destroyed the balance of nature. water, land, air, and the wildlife they support have been despoiled and depleted.

Fallen man says:

Children of God says:

In Genesis 9:8-17, God directly includes the earth and all the animals as participants in the covenant.

Gen 9:9 "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.

Genesis 1:30,

he takes care specifically to grant the plant life of the earth to the creatures

who possess “breath of life.”

Gen 9:3-4

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries the rise of science and technology

Rise of Rationalism

Mechanical View of Nature

Anthropocentric Philosophy

1. Many Christians believed that the whole creation was meant for the use of Man. So we need not care about the environment.

2. Due to the belief that creation could and thus should be under human control, many Christians felt justified in exploiting and degrading the environment for the sake of progress.

3. These beliefs about the importance of creation has caused many Christians to look for ways in which they can care for and protect the environment today.

Behold I make all things new

I want to make

Will the Sons please help?Daughters included

"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock . . . they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy

mountain, says the Lord." (Isaiah 65:25)

Christian Stewardship of

THE CREATION God's Creation includes

people (sons of God )

and our environment

(till and keep).

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