Earth Warriors

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"I'm not an environmentalist.  I'm an Earth warrior."  ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

Welcome to my Earth Day article. The above quote was gotten from this webpage: www.quotegarden.com/earth-day.… (Quote Garden). That is what Green-Earthers are, warriors for the planet. But what is at the heart of all of it? The following quote shows, also gotten from afore mentioned website. I did not change any punctuation.

"A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.  If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally.  Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power.  His fairness.  His very existence.  But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple.  She never claimed conceited omnipotence.  She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves.  To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge.  Go play outside.  Go get a job.  Or, better yet, lend me a hand.  I have no time for idle whining."  ~David Brin

At the center of the Pro-Planet Movement is a rejection of God. Notice how only one word is capitalized in reference to God. One single word: Dad. Now notice that nearly all references to "Mother Earth" are capitalized, right down to the words "she" and "her"! This movement is to worship Earth!

What does Scripture say about our planet? Well, here is a selective list:

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"In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and The Life was the light of men. And The Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." ~John 1:1-5
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"For in six days The LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore The LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." ~Exodus 20:11
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"He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. When He uttereth His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures." ~Jeremiah 10:12-13 (51:15-16)
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"Whatsoever The LORD pleased, that did He in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings for the rain; He bringeth the wind out of His treasuries." ~Psalms 135:6-7
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"For thus saith The LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: 'I Am The LORD; and there is none else.' " ~Isaiah 45:18
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"Thus saith God The LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:" ~Isaiah 42:5
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"And God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.' So God created man in His Own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.' " ~Genesis 1:26-28
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"The heaven, even the heavens, are The LORD'S: but the earth hath He given to the children of men." ~Psalms 115:16
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"And The LORD God said unto the serpent, 'Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.'

Unto the woman He said, 'I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'

And unto Adam He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, 'Thou shalt not eat of it:' cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." ~Genesis 3:14-19
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"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein." ~Genesis 9:1-7
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"And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 'And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.'

And God said, 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set My [rain]bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'

And God said unto Noah, 'This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth." ~Genesis 9:8-17
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"Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death." ~Numbers 35:30-31
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"And The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And The LORD said, 'Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'

So The LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because The LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did The LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." ~Genesis 11:5-9
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"Therefore The Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel." ~Isaiah 7:14
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"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon Kis shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of The LORD of hosts will perform this." ~Isaiah 9:6-7  
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"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of The Only Begotten of The Father,) full of grace and truth." ~John 1:9-14
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"He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.  Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." ~Isaiah 53:3-5 {my favorite Bible verses!}
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"[Jesus answered and said unto him {Nicodemus},] 'And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must The Son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. he that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth The Light, neither cometh to The Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.  But he that doeth truth cometh to The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.' " ~John 3:10, 14-21
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"Jesus saith unto him [Thomas], 'I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man cometh unto The Father, but by Me." ~John 14:6
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"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth The Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For The Scripture saith, 'Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.' " ~Romans 10:9-11
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"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of The Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless." ~2 Peter 3:9-14

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I don't think anyone needs to point out that earth's history and life owes everything to God for creating and sustaining it. But you also learn great doctrine from these verses! Let me list a few:

Jesus created everything in 6 days—Jesus gives us evaporation, lightning, and rain—Extra Terrestrials do not exist—there is but 1 true God—God breathed life into the first man and each person since then—God is 3-in-1—man has the God-given dominion of this planet—man sinned causing God to curse this world from perfection, giving us death, thorns and thistles, painful childbirth, hard work, and more—God destroyed the world with a flood, but put the rainbow up as a promise to not do so again—we can now eat meat—murder by man or beast means death to that man or beast—due to yet more sin, God created multiple languages—the virgin Mary gave birth to "God with us"—Jesus is The Word of God—Jesus lived and died for us—Eternal Life is granted to those who put their trust in Jesus—condemnation is taken on yourself if you do not put faith in Jesus—Jesus is The Light, The Way, The Truth, and The Life—it is easy to accept Jesus' free gift—Christians should not be ashamed of Jesus—these heavens and earth with burn up, followed by a new heaven and earth—Christians need to live blameless holy lives—etc.

If you have questions, let me know. I leave you with part of a song. God Bless you on this Sunday following CREATION DAY!!!

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"For Future Generations" by 4Him

The signs are obvious, they are everywhere,
All that we hear about is the gloom and despair.
Too many would-be-prophets saying,
"It's the end of it all!
'Cause Mother Earth can't take much more!
The hammer's gonna fall!"

So nature has its needs, that's a lesson learned,
But it appears to me there are greater concerns.
'Cause we can save the planet
Thinkin' we will somehow survive,
But Father Time is calling us
To save somebody's life!

So I won't bend and I won't break,
I won't water-down my faith,
I won't compromise to a world of desperation!
What has been I cannot change,
But for tomorrow and today
I must be a light for future generations!
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Crawldragon's avatar
Actually, I've been wondering about the whole ET thing. I honestly don't see what about Christianity demands that extraterrestrials not exist, so I'd like to hear your take on it.

The reason I'm curious about it is I read an article on Answers in Genesis explaining their point of view, and I thought it was full of beans to be quite frank. Their argument was that man's sin tainted all of creation, but Jesus died for the humans and not the aliens, which doesn't make any sense to me.