“Ecology is sacramental. But we have been living like pirates, living off our ecological capital, spending it” - Pope Francis, Laudato Si
Genesis 1:28
Genesis 2:15 Isaiah 11:1-9 Joel 2:21-26 |
Deuteronomy 20:19-20
Leviticus 25:5-6 Leviticus 22:28 Matthew 6:28-31 |
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 1:28
There's aspects there about responsibility, environmental responsibility that we read about in our creation narratives in Genesis, but again, it's much more as well about interpreting that in the community context, and seeing how we actually relate with each other. So dealing with some of these problems is very much asking about our world view and how we see ourselves in the world and how we can re-imagine that, in how we're living on a day-to-day basis.’
Miriam Pepper
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
genesis 2:15
When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them? However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
Deuteronomy 20:19-20
Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest. Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you.
Leviticus 25:5-6
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
Matthew 6:28-31