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No, pantheistic state-ism is not a synonym for Biblical Christianity!
From ChristianGovernance eletter – December 20, 2012
More wisdom distinguishing a Biblical worldview from pantheistic state-ism. This is from The Cornwall Alliance, the organization whose material on Environmentalism we will be using for one of the sessions at our April 20th “Courageous Justice” Biblical worldview conference.
Good News for Environmentalists – and Other Sinners
By E. Calvin Beisner
Leading environmental thinkers often set forth a way of living that sounds attractive at first but turns out largely inconsistent with God’s Word, the Bible. Take these two examples:
Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir, early naturalist, father of much environmental thought, founder of The Sierra Club, and activist for preservation.
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. – Joseph Wood Krutch, writer, ecologist, and naturalist.
The Bible presents a different message:
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?-Micah 6:8 (ESV)
Man, according to environmentalists, should help nature by not interfering with it, or only interfering with reverential awe, as Muir says. Those who use the natural world to produce or innovate are “destroyers” of God’s good creation.
The popular movie The Matrix has the antagonist describe man as a virus, which multiplies endlessly, consuming resources and destroying everything in its path.
Is this God’s view of man? Is it true that we only destroy?