April 30, 2010

“A case can certainly be made
that Christians bear a major responsibility
for our ecological crisis.
But the fault is not their biblical
but their unbiblical view of nature.
Christians have long failed to understand
what the Bible really teaches
concerning nature and our responsibility for it.
For this there is no excuse.
Repentance must be our first response.
Our second response must then be
to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding
and act accordingly.
We are all responsible to know
what can be known of God’s will for nature,
and we are then responsible
to act on that knowledge.”
- James W. Sire
(Christian author)