The Gulf oil spill is a picture book of two value systems intersecting.
On one hand, a camp of people are bleeding because the environment is being desecrated. On the other hand, a camp of people are bleeding because their livelihood is being destroyed.
No one likes either scenario, but which camp understands the order of life?
"People" trump "slick pelicans". Why?
The Creator made man in His image for communion with Him. He made the world and the animals for man. We are made to worship the Creator, not the creation.
Good stewards of the land/animals? Of course that's our commission. But the One who made our environment will one day replace it. He will heat the globe to destruction...on HIS timetable...and make a new heaven and earth.
"Because of this day (of judgment), the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze! But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides." 2Peter 3.12-13
The bottom line is this...we know oil spills can be cleaned up, but it is catastrophic for a whole area of the country to lose the way they provide for their families.
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