Saturday, September 12, 2015

God Made Us Stewards of the Earth


God made us stewards of the earth
  'God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
  Then God said, "Let us make man in Our Image, according to Our likeness; and let them have stewardship over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 
  God created man in in His Own Image, in the Image of God He created them; male and female He created them . . ." Genesis 1; 25 - 27

Flawless inheritance  
  When God created the earth and all in it, He gave this flawless inheritance to humanity - God-Imaged in male and female form.
  Stewardship denotes the activity or job of protecting and being responsible for something.
  It would appear that God had mature protection of planetary resources in mind.
  When we look around our inheritance today, we see animals behaving in stewardship roles.
 - Picking up the refuse carelessly left by the planet's rulers [1]
 - Saving human babies discarded in the trash [2]
Oceans are overfished and badly affected [3] 
Trawling nets kill many marine animals for no reason whatever.
- Pollution threatens the health of many. WHO report speaks about air pollution reportedly killing '7 million people a year' Alleged News [4]
- Radioactive waste discarded in oceans is changing our ecosystem. In one instance, Wall St Journal claimed that plutonium levels are 1,000 times above normal on the seafloor 50 miles from San Francisco where 50,000 containers of radioactive waste lay at the bottom of the seafloor after steel barrels of nuclear material were disposed of a few decades ago, Alleged News. They also claimed this is globally significant and is impacting the ecosystem, Alleged News [5] 

Animals treated with lack of respect
Animals are treated with lack of respect for life. 
  Not only eaten in contravention of God's direct Commandment to Moses 'Thou shalt not kill', they are tortured, beaten, burned alive, ripped apart in the process of being killed and used as human food.     One such example is the torture and consumption of dogs and cats in Korea, Alleged News [6]
  Cancer risks in humans have reportedly increased due to red meat from animals [7]
 Bees, a vital link in the food cycle of the planet, are in danger of becoming extinct due to various factors [8]
 Numerous instances of animals treated in abusive ways, experimented on, killed are reported in the news.

Outer Space
As humanity has extended research into space, debris and trash have been left in the until then pristinely kept universe.
  More than 500,000 pieces of debris or 'space junk' are tracked as they orbit the earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph with potential danger to all space vehicles [9]

Moral Implications
When God created humanity as stewards, He did not intent us to be overlords but friends with responsibility for the greater good of the beauty He made.
  The Garden of Eden was beautifully made and abounded with life; humanity were created specifically to take care of it.
  How God must look down and cry as He sees what we have made of it.
  People lying dying in streets outside shuttered housing; freezing to death in winter near shelter they may not use due to manmade laws.
  Babies being murdered before birth so as not to be an inconvenience.
  Animals being tortured and murdered, humanity uncaring at their cries.
  The reality of the gruesome deaths animals suffer in excrutiating pain in order to be hygienically presented in attractive shelving for sale as food.

 Abattoir killing done away from the daily gaze of the public. I visited an abattoir when I was seventeen years old. 
  Animals hung upside down, their one leg staked through a hook, kicking as they were shot to the head; fellow cattle being herded to their death lowed in distress. 
  Mother animals were discarded in a special room, their unborn babies tumbling out of their uterus as the mother gave premature birth during their murder. 
  All were left on the ground, the tiny premature calves gasping to death within the membranes next to their dead mothers. I don't need to wonder what hell looks like; I have been there.

Our responsibilities as stewards
As stewards, each one of us has a moral responsibility.
  We will stand before Almighty God at our own personal judgement. We will be required to account for our actions during our lifetimes by One Who is understanding; but, before His immense Holiness and Perfection, surely every failing to those around us - including the innocents who protected the Son of God at birth by being the only ones in the planet to offer Him shelter - will shame us before Our Lord and Master.
  We have a moral responsibility to be noble, worthy and compassionate to others and to our planet.
  It is not logical or according to reason to wish to find alien life in other planets. What can we offer?
  There is life. That is assured. Those who have gone before us are living in the cosmos according to the preparations made by God.
  Angels direct the universe and assist us.
  Hoping to find alien life on other planets when our own planet is slowly being poisoned to death by neglect is not ethical or morally
responsible.
  Let us clean up our home, fulfil our responsibilities as stewards, cease the murder of animals and lift our head up high once more.

[1] Elephant caught on CCRB cleaning up the trash 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NswSP0Hrh9Q 
[2] http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2015/05/stray-dog-saves-baby-thrown-in-trash-from-being-eaten-alive/ 
[3] http://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/the-dead-ocean-eyewitness-says-overfishing-has-emptied-the-pacific/ 
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/air-pollution-kills-7m-people-a-year 
[5] http://www.cbrneportal.com/the-disposal-of-nuclear-waste-into-the-worlds-oceans/
[6] http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2015/07/torture-and-consumption-of-dogs-and.html 
[7] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/01/02/red-meat-cancer-immune/#.VbB34_lViko
[8] http://www.globalresearch.ca/death-and-extinction-of-the-bees/5375684 
[9] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html

With thanks to Youtube, lifewithdogs.tv, mongabay.com, theguardian.com, cbrneportal.com, blogs.discovermagazine.com, globalresearch.ca, nasa.gove

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