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106 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 25 Dec \ on: Jordan Peterson SN Book Club: The Meaning and Virtue of Work BooksAndArticles
The Christian theology of work is actually quite interesting.
Genesis 2 shows us that the reason God created Adam was actually for the purpose of work:
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, - Genesis 2:5
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. - Genesis 2:15
In fact, it could be said that God created man and woman in his own image for the purpose of participating in the act of creation by cultivating that which God created.
We can see this in God's command to humans to have dominion over the Earth and to be fruitful and multiply in Genesis 1, and even in Adam's naming of the animals in Genesis 2. Christians call this the cultural mandate.
Christian theology even has an answer for why we have come to dislike work, why work has come to be seen as a barrier to fulfillment rather than a source of fulfillment. And that answer is that this was part of the curse that came upon man because of their original sin:
cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. - Genesis 3:17-19
I've always found the Christian theology of work to be both fascinating and inspiring. As someone who is fortunate to work in a field that I actually have an interest in, I always thought it a shame that so many people find so little fulfillment in their work, yet I can totally understand it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 19h
Thank you for this, really valuable addition to the reading!
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