Natural theology

The Bible is clear that God, people and the natural world are deeply interconnected, so if one aspect of that is broken then everything will be impacted. 
--- Gideon Heugh, Apr, 2. 2020.God created a world that he declared to be very good (Genesis 1:31) – a world in which everything exists in harmony with God. Relationship with God, with others, with ourselves and with the rest of creation is central to God’s loving purposes.  After those relationships go wrong, the Bible then tells the story of how God works to restore them – a plan that finds its ultimate fulfilment in Jesus. Poverty, conflict, suffering, climate change – all these are the result of those broken relationships. The Bible is clear that God, people and the natural world are deeply interconnected, so if one aspect of that is broken then everything will be impacted.  As hard as it is to hear, the outbreak of coronavirus is not a ‘natural disaster’. It is a disaster of our own making. Viruses jump species and get into humans, and environmental destruction makes this more likely to happen as people are brought into closer contact with virus-carrying animals. Deforestation, mining, animal trafficking and unsustainable farming practices are all likely factors at play.1--- Gideon Heugh, Apr, 2. 2020.The human family has created an environmental calamity that has the power to undermine its civilization—a calamity of many factors; a calamity that will alter your environment, that will deplete your soils, that will dry up your rivers; a calamity that will bring an end to your growth and expansion; a calamity that has been the product of decades and centuries of misuse of the world, with no thought of tomorrow, as if the world were an endless bounty that could be exploited without limit.
--- Relayed by Marshall Vian Summers "on February 24, 2011 in Boulder, CO.""As revealed to God’s Messenger Marshall Vian Summers on February 24, 2011 in Boulder, CO[.]"
Natural; Theology; Spirituality
Marshall Vian Summers
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