“Who

owns
the
earth?”

"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." Psalms

24:1
God Created the Earth and All of Nature in it
Psalms 104:25,30.
In wisdom you made them all,
the earth is full of your
creatures.
There is the sea, vast and
spacious, teeming with
creatures beyond number -
living things both large and
small...
When you send your Spirit,
they are created and
you renew the earth.
 John 1:3.
Through Him all things were made:
without Him nothing was made that
has been made.
 Colossians 1:16-17.
All things were created by Him and
for Him.
He is before all things
and
in Him all things hold together.

“founded the earth to endure’’ (Ps. 119:90-91).

What kind of world did God create?
What kind of world did God create?
Laws of the Physical World
Everything follows the law.
What kind of world did God create?

The laws reflects the faithfulness of God.

Without the laws there would not be any certainity.
Life would not have been possible without it.
“maintained by your rulings”
(Ps. 119:90-91).
 Things coexist in intricate
and regulated harmony.
This is the basic postulate of
science and reason.
 It is a world of bounty and harmony.
Every constant is adjusted to create a coherent
universe to support life.

“while the earth remains,

seed-time and harvest shall not cease”
(Gen. 8:22).
 No physical hypothesis founded on any indisputable fact has yet explained the origin
of the primordial protoplasm, and, above all, of its marvellous properties, which render
evolution possible—in heredity and in adaptability,
for these properties are the cause and not the effect of evolution.
For the cause of this cause we have sought in vain among the physical forces which
surround us, until we are at last compelled to rest upon an independent volition, a far-
seeing intelligent design
Gen 1:24-25 And God
said, "Let the earth bring
forth living creatures
according to their
kinds; cattle and
creeping things and
beasts of the earth
according to their
kinds." And it was so.

And God made the

beasts of the earth
according to their kinds
and the cattle according
to their kinds, and
everything that creeps
upon the ground
according to its kind.
 Sentient beings
which can use the law to
their purpose
having a higher law
within them

They are in a different

dimension
Each dimension has its own
law.
Gen 2:7 then the
LORD God formed
man of dust from the
ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the
breath of life; and
man became a living
being.

Gen 1:27 So God

created man
in his own image,
in the image of
God he created
him; male and
female he created
them.
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Fo ife
l
of

Jewish mystic philosophy of

how God
Creates,
Forms, and
Sustains
this world,
with its perceived multiplicity
of objects & consciousnesses
out of His Pure Unity.
 Spirit beings
Animals
Birds

Inorganic
Microbes
Vegetation
All these four
dimensions form
one unit organism.
They are
interdependent.
Forms the
extension of God
Sons of God
All these dimensions penetrate
one into other to form one unity.
 Jaganath
The Indian
representation of
The God of Creation

Eastern churches considers all the cosmos as part

of God’s body.
God himself is unknowable (Blackness) and
beyond understanding
Gen 1:26 Then God
said, "Let us make man
in our image, after our
likeness; and let
them have
dominion
over the fish of the
sea,
and over the birds of
the air,
and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,
and over
every creeping thing
that creeps upon the
earth."
Gen 2:15 The LORD God
took the man and put
him in the garden of
Eden
to till it and keep it.

"master it"
"The heavens are the
Lord's heavens,
but the earth he has given to
mankind."
(Psalm 115:16)
In the name of progress,
the greed of man has
destroyed the balance of
nature.
water, land, air, and the
wildlife they support
have been despoiled and
depleted.
Fallen man says:

Children of God says:

In Genesis 9:8-17, God
directly includes the earth and
all the animals as participants
in the covenant.

Gen 9:9 "Behold, I establish

my covenant with you and
your descendants after you,
and with every living creature
that is with you, the birds, the
cattle, and every beast of the
earth with you, as many as
came out of the ark.
 Genesis 1:30,
he takes care specifically to
grant the plant life of the earth to
the creatures
who possess
“breath of life.”

Gen 9:3-4

Every moving thing that lives shall be

food for you;
and as I gave you the green plants, I
give you everything.

Only you shall not eat flesh with its

life, that is, its blood.
The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries the rise of science and
technology
 Rise of Rationalism
Mechanical View of Nature
Anthropocentric Philosophy
1. Many Christians believed that the
whole creation was meant for the use
of Man. So we need not care about the
environment.
2. Due to the belief that creation could
and thus should be under human control,
many Christians felt justified in
exploiting and degrading the
environment for the sake of progress.
 3. These beliefs about the importance
of creation has caused many
Christians to look for ways in which
they can care for and protect the
environment today.
Behold I make all things new
I want to make
Will the Sons please help?
Daughters included
"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock . . . they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, says the Lord." (Isaiah 65:25)
Christian Stewardship
of
THE CREATION
God's Creation includes
people
(sons of God )
and
our environment
(till and keep).