Secularist Culture
What are the two views that secularists take on how we should interact with nature?
Secular environmentalists and Spiritual environmentalists.
Where does the Bible claim the world/Earth/Universe is from?
God created it.
What is All of Creation?
Everything that exists, encompassing the entire universe and all of its contents
According to the textbook: How do Christians see humans?
Humans are made in God's image.
What is the first verse of the Bible and what does it tell us about the Earth?
Gen 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
This being the first verse in the bible and it outright tells us that God made the heavens and the EARTH
What is the global crisis that people are claiming to be warming up the Earth?
Global Warming
What is the command God gave us to rule over the Earth called?
The Creation Mandate
What does it mean to care for someone or something?
The provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
If what the Bible says is true, Christians outght to be the most...
enthusiastic people on Earth when it comes to caring for creation.
Give examples for what you can do to help the environment.
Answers may vary:
(Ex. Be more concious of what you do and how it affects the environment. Encourage your friends and family to do the small things like recycling and no littering)
Many Secularists claim that we should do what with creation?
Leave it alone.
God isn't interested in having just enough to scrape by, he is interested in having...
Abundance
Define Stewardship.
The process of managing something that has been entrusted to one's care.
What did the 'science' touted in Silent Spring turn out to be?
Either overstated or false.
What does Gen 1:28, "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth", have to say about how christians treat the earth?
God calls us to protect the earth and the creatures that live in it. Not only is this what God has called us to do, but not taking care of the earth will become very harmful for us.
Explain the difference between Spiritual and Secular environmentalists.
Spiritual believe that it is our job to see environmental damage as a spiritual offense, but Secular think the point is to stop stewarding and let it run its course.
What does it mean when we are told that Humans are the stewards and not the owners of the Earth?
God owns the Earth. However, he has given us stewardship of it to watch and take care of.
What is Dominion?
The power or right of an authority to rule over territory or people.
Explain this quote from the book: "The first myth keeping Christians on the sidelines is the perception that environmentalism is an alternative religion" (Myers 294).
Answers may vary:
(Ex. It calls out a big reason why we don't do anything at times. Sometimes Christians see things as part of a sub text of our religion or another religion in general. Like believing that you should be baptised whenever you go to a new Church to 'prove' your Christianity. This is far from necessay, but some people think you should)
Secularists want us to leave creation alone and let it fix itself, but this is nearly impossible because why? Give at least 2 reasons.
Answers may vary:
(Ex. 1. Humans have damaged the earth far too much to just leave it alone now
2. Humans are so wide spread and keep on growing that it wouldn't be plausable to just stop expanding )
What is the difference between Environmentalism and Conservationalism?
Why is Creation Care important?
Because God calls us to do it and even if he didn't, we should feel the want to keep his creation alive and well.
The branch of biology that deals with how organisms realte to one another.
Ecology
Fill the blanks: Creation groans, but it isn't a groan of ___. It's a groan of life. Christ doesn't ___ creation; he brings it to ___.
death, annnihilate, fruition
Why does Creation Care not make sense without a loving creator who made the world for us in the first place?
If the world was simply made by a big bang, then it can just happen again. There is no sense of purpose to fix what we have broken and keep everything livine, for there was no reason for it to live in the first place.