Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The Green Bible

We have the latest offering by Harper Collins to the Emergent Church Movement; The Green Bible. Featuring Brian McLaren, a popular author and purveyor of false doctrine within the Emergent Movement. Other prominent leaders of the social gospel scene are featured as well. One of the earmarks of the Emergent Church Movement is it's focus on Orthopraxy (action/activity) rather then Orthodoxy (correct doctrine.) As Christians, of course we are charged with being good stewards of our planet. But the Emergent Church Movement has a greater message and agenda. Environmentalism is only one spoke in the broader social gospel they are spreading.

2 comments:

darrida said...

I think a mistake people are currently making is confusing Emergents so called "social gospel" with the popular definition of a social gospel that is a associated with late 19th, early 20th century liberation theology... which was put to rest by WWI and WWII.

I think that this confusion is a mistake... no emergent that I know of thinks that humans can fix the earth and people by themselves. Whether they think that God is going to renew the earth through his people, or he's going to do it for them, they believe that in order for any of it to happen... it will only take place with Jesus on his throne and personally intervening with his divine power. That is very different than the common picture associated with a social gospel - that sees humans as getting better and more sophisticated and civilized and being able to end world hunger and suffering by themselves.

Just thought I'd add my 2 cents.

juliewall said...

It's blasphemy if we don't take care of our God-given body, God's earth and God's creatures!

Did you know? Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that a plant-based diet could prevent 90-97% of heart diseases. 48 years later the Christian community is still unaware about this information. "If Americans adopted a plant-based diet," says Dr. William Castelli, director of the Framingham Cardiovascular Center, "then the heart disease epidemic would disappear." According to the EPA, animal agriculture is the main cause of toxic water pollution! And now there is another possible threat of a swine flu pandemic started by factory farming!
http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/swine_flu.html

From a Christian perspective, Satan wants humans to stay uneducated about their health, so they will be sick unnecessarily! Satan wants Christians unaware about how their food is produced, so the suffering of God's creatures can continue, and God's earth can be destroyed! Please watch for the Lord: "Eating Mercifully "
http://video.hsus.org/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=fddfc1d63c358bb2db36b53597ceeb7b724f5771


FREE: "Eating Mercifully" DVD:
http://www.hsus.org/forms/eating_mercifully_dvd_request.html

This excerpt is from the Christian Vegetarian Association:

The Bible depicts vegetarianism as God’s ideal, and the diet conforms to the central biblical principle of steward-ship. In Eden, all creatures lived peacefully, and God told both humans and animals to consume only plant foods (Gen. 1:29–31). Several prophecies, such as Isaiah 11:6–9, foresee a return to this vegetarian world, where the wolf, lamb, lion, cow, bear, snake, and little child all coexist peacefully. Christian vegetarians, while acknowledging human sinfulness, believe we should strive toward the harmonious world Isaiah envisioned—to try to live in accordance with the prayer that Jesus taught us, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10).

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, God granted humanity “dominion” over God’s Creation. More and more, faithful Christians are coming to see “dominion” as a sacred responsibility, rather than as a license to do whatever we want with the earth or God’s animals. Our dominion over God’s Creation should be patterned on God’s loving, compassionate dominion over us. If we fail to show love for God’s Creation or mercy for God’s creatures, should we expect God to protect us from the consequences of our own heartlessness and self-indulgence?


To learn more: http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/honoring.htm

To view "Honoring God's Creation" video: http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/cvavideo.htm