Post by Daniel on Oct 14, 2017 8:54:20 GMT -5
Environmentalists share blame for raging forest fires
By Bryan Fischer
October 12, 2017
...The nation has been transfixed by the raging, out-of-control fires in Northern California that are responsible for at least two dozen deaths, hundreds of injuries, and the destruction of thousands of homes and businesses.
If we are looking for someone to blame, not for the fire itself, but for it's intensity and destructive power, the place to begin is with environmentalists who are fierce opponents of logging and aim to return all the earth to its native condition, with no trace of a human imprint.
This goal of environmentalists – to remove all traces of human impact from nature – is not only misguided and dangerous, it is unbiblical.
According to environmental regressives, man is a noxious parasite in nature. According to the Bible, however, man is God's vice-regent with delegated authority to manage nature for man's benefit. "The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it" (Genesis 2:15 (emphasis mine throughout).
The Hebrew word translated "work" (abad) can also mean to "serve," which is another way of saying that man is directed not to destroy nature but to steward it and nurture it. He's also responsible to "keep" it, a Hebrew word (shamar) which means to "guard, to protect, to hedge about."
Preventable forest fires that burn millions of acres of trees to the ground are hardly good examples of responsible environmental care.
The primary cause of immense, destructive forest fires is the absence of human stewardship. As H. Sterling Burnett put it in the New York Times, "While wildfires, per se, are entirely natural, the size, intensity and harm caused annually by the past decade's forest fires are almost entirely of human origin: federal mismanagement of our national forests are to blame."
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www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/171012
By Bryan Fischer
October 12, 2017
...The nation has been transfixed by the raging, out-of-control fires in Northern California that are responsible for at least two dozen deaths, hundreds of injuries, and the destruction of thousands of homes and businesses.
If we are looking for someone to blame, not for the fire itself, but for it's intensity and destructive power, the place to begin is with environmentalists who are fierce opponents of logging and aim to return all the earth to its native condition, with no trace of a human imprint.
This goal of environmentalists – to remove all traces of human impact from nature – is not only misguided and dangerous, it is unbiblical.
According to environmental regressives, man is a noxious parasite in nature. According to the Bible, however, man is God's vice-regent with delegated authority to manage nature for man's benefit. "The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it" (Genesis 2:15 (emphasis mine throughout).
The Hebrew word translated "work" (abad) can also mean to "serve," which is another way of saying that man is directed not to destroy nature but to steward it and nurture it. He's also responsible to "keep" it, a Hebrew word (shamar) which means to "guard, to protect, to hedge about."
Preventable forest fires that burn millions of acres of trees to the ground are hardly good examples of responsible environmental care.
The primary cause of immense, destructive forest fires is the absence of human stewardship. As H. Sterling Burnett put it in the New York Times, "While wildfires, per se, are entirely natural, the size, intensity and harm caused annually by the past decade's forest fires are almost entirely of human origin: federal mismanagement of our national forests are to blame."
read full article
www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/171012
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