Environmental Rights (and Wrongs)

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Should we assign rights to the environment (animate and/or inanimate)? Or has God already assigned these, and we just need to work out what they are?

Best wishes, 2RM.​
 

shittim

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Why not obediently scripture and not in disobedience lean on our own understanding?
 

p_rehbein

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God charged His children to be good stewards of His creations.


Bible verses related to Stewardship Of Gods Creation from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance


Genesis 2:15 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 1:28 - 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.

1 Peter 4:10 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Genesis 1:26 - 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.

Colossians 1:16-17 - For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Read More...)

Job 12:7-10 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: (Read More...)

Jeremiah 2:7 - And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Isaiah 24:5 - The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Leviticus 25:23 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Revelation 11:18 - And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Psalms 24:1 - (A Psalm of David.) The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalms 50:10 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Leviticus 25:23-24 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. (Read More...)

Luke 12:42-46 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? (Read More...)

Matthew 6:26 - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Matthew 6:19-21 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: (Read More...)

Haggai 1:3-7 - Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, (Read More...)
 

shittim

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Indeed! I am blessed to feed his creatures (birds) and feel His blessing for it.
 
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Oblio

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I like my local squirrels but I don't feed them. They all need to go on diets. I watch them make their daily rounds. They have the community trained. I often see them laying there, too fat to move. During the cannabis growing season, they seem to get extra fat...and lazy! It's pathetic!
 

p_rehbein

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Stoner Squirrls! Gives a whole new meaning to "nuts."