>DKleinecke <dkleinecke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Re: What should a Christian do?
>There seems to be an overwhelming amount of evidence that civilization
>as we know it is headed straight into a major disaster. I mean a
>disaster of same magnitude as when the meteor struck and killed off
>the dinosaurs.
>
>Currently global warming is the aspect of this disaster getting the
>most attention. But there are many other aspects and some of them like
>the population explosion will cause more grief than global warming. I
>don't know when civilization will break - but I would be surprised if
>it lasted until 2100 CE. I will not be around to see.
>
>I doubt that this is the end of the world. It seems more in the nature
>of a test that we, mankind, must pass or be severely reduced.
>
>It is possible to deny that the coming disaster is in fact coming.
>The Pope (I don't know which one) said that if God thought that the
>population was increasing too fast he, God, would reduce human
>fertility to a suitable level. That rings very false to me. I believe
>God intends for us to save ourselves physically in the physical
>world.
>
>So what is a Christian believer supposed to do?
>
>Turning to the Bible I find no answer. In biblical times there was no
>such problem and hence no answers to it. I cannot even recognize in
>the Bible (in neither testament nor the non-canonical writings) any
>principles that I could extend to cover this situation.
>
>I suspect no one has answered that question because no one has any
>plausible idea about what to do. Perhaps there are plausible ideas out
>there that I have missed. Can anyone help?
>
Hello,
Yes, the world is a mess, much of it because of mankind himself. As
the Bible puts it at Re 11:18,
"...The time has come to destroy those who are destroying the
earth." (NJB)
Thus if you are putting your trust in humans to straighten things out,
you are wasting your time. As the above verse shows, it will take God
to save us from ourselves.
Sincerely, James
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