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.
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revea… - James W. Sire
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revea…
- James W. Sire
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 unb… - James W. Sire
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 unb…
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know… - James W. Sire
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know…
Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between … - James W. Sire
Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between …
When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would… - James W. Sire
When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would…
A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions whi… - James W. Sire
A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions whi…
To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to revea… - James W. Sire
To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to revea…
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