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Have we failed the gift God entrusted to us?
190 sats \ 2 comments \ @Tef 13 Sep ideasfromtheedge
I was watching a documentary about animals on television and I don’t believe there is anyone who isn’t amazed by the way everything in their world has so much order.
You are amazed at how they preserve the balances that nature has set for them. There is no need there for laws, strategies, or conferences and summits. There everything exists simply by maintaining its delicate balance.
Animals live within this balance without planning, without philosophies, and yet every action of theirs contributes to the common harmony. Their instinct is simple, but wiser than any kind of knowledge we humans claim to have.
We humans, with all our achievements and our “brilliant” mind, have forgotten this simple wisdom. We build cities, create cutting-edge technology to control the world, but every step of ours often destroys that balance that existed without us. Forests are extinguished, rivers and the air are poisoned, and the creatures that lived in harmony with nature are disappearing under the weight of our “wisdom.”
It is tragic and ironic how man, the most intelligent being on the planet, has lost the most fundamental connection with the life that surrounds him. When we look at an animal that moves according to instinct, we understand a simple truth: wisdom does not come from words, diplomacy, or planning, but from harmony with the world that gave us birth.
God gave man dominion over the earth and everything in it, but we did not take care of it at all. I am certain that even for this we will be asked to give account for why we did not preserve this priceless gift of life.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 13 Sep
God gave man dominion over the earth and everything in it, but we did not take care of it at all. I am certain that even for this we will be asked to give account for why we did not preserve this priceless gift of life.
God did in fact give us this world, and we do have a responsibility to use that gift wisely. However the world is not, nor was ever intended, to be a museum piece.
The world is ours to use, to multiply our gifts and ultimately extol the value of God. Sitting around in mud huts being ravaged by disease is a very very poor use of Gods gift. The development of cities, agriculture and all other technologies are ultimately good as so far as they reduce human suffering.
The worship of nature is a dead end. No doubt you picked up the anti-human feelings from the TV documentary, because thats the intended idea. The secularist want to lower man to just another animal. Snail, rat, man.
But the poor state of the world you see around you is precisely the effects of that thinking. When the human soul is degraded to the point that there is no soul at all, and only a mammal exist...well why not imprison, farm, subdue, and cull them?
The point of this life is to make the world a better place than we found it (and that includes the environment). The work of our hands should be to reduce suffering, build things which enrich us spiritually, and ultimately bring us closer to God. Nature will never be respected to the degree that God intended as long as we humans continue to see ourselves with such degradation.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 13 Sep
The substitution for the wisdom of man is trying hard to supplant the wisdom of nature. It is a poor trade.
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