The Christian worldview throws it back upon us to understand that when we look at a tragedy like this it speaks not only to the collision between these two worldviews but to the fact that we as Christians have to understand that we are not self-defining creatures; that we do not have the right biblically speaking even to define the terms by which we would find life livable. . . . It is also a sign of the human being overreaching, in terms of defining our own lives on our own terms, and that’s the real issue here. ----------- We are given by God, as the creatures made in his image, a stewardship responsibility for the entire cosmos in so far as we have the power or the influence to affect change for the better. We are given the responsibility of dominion, but that dominion is in the context of a stewardship. We are not to be the mere users and abusers of the cosmos, but it is within the biblical context that we see that we are those who were assigned attending of a garden – that’s the metaphor for creation – and our task is to tend the garden well, to tend the garden faithfully, even as the good farmer, the good gardener knows that is our responsibility. And to hang it off to generations yet to come, understanding that is not just a matter of a human stewardship but it’s a matter of what it means to glorify the Creator and to exercise the responsibility He has given us in faithfulness.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:26:46 +0000
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