In the second Genesis account of creation (Genesis 2), the Creator settled His creatures in a setting which the Creator called “good” and “very good.” In that setting, represented as a “garden,” the tenants were to “dress it and keep it.”
It is an interesting aside, as Alexander McClaren pointed out, that the woman formed was not created out of the man’s feet, thus to be trampled upon, nor from his head, thus to be his superior, but from his side that they might walk, hand in hand, together.
People of faith are under covenant, or contract, to “dress” the earth and to “keep” it, not by greed or stupidity to darken its skies and to pollute its waterways.
Failure to keep the terms of our creation means that the covenant breakers forfeit the right to occupy what their blundering selfishness has fouled and corrupted.
Is this to be our human fate, now being adumbrated by scientific findings?
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