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No War Has Ever Done This to Us
No natural disaster, no tsunami, no earthquake, no flooding, no hurricane or famine has had this global effect. No persecution has ever forced us into this behavior. While some are waiting for certain dreaded Sunday laws to bring it upon us, it is this microscopic thing called COVID-19 that has c...
The Strong Groans Of Nature: An Adventist Proposal On Environmental Care
From the entrance of sin, nature has been affected and, as illustrated by Paul, it groans and is in labor pains. But using this analogy, at the end time, are these moans louder and the labor contractions already more frequent and painful? This presentation reviews some of the most worrisome environmental problems produced by man, and then addresses the environmentalism-eschatology dilemma and the theological responses to it.
Adventist Eschatology And Ecclesiology In A Climate Disrupted World
This presentation explores the intersection of Adventist eschatology and its practice of ecclesiology in the current and future climate-disrupted world. First, it examines the biblical narrative of the relationship between eschatology, ecclesiology, evangelism, and church economics, and how these interact within Adventism. Second, it considers climate disruption and its impacts on Adventist eschatology, ecclesiology, evangelism, and economics, and on its institutions and membership. Finally, it reviews Seventh-day Adventist Church statements on environment, climate change, and global poverty as a means to increase mission effectiveness, and proposes values to assist in responding to climate disruption, including the concept of being a “catalytic remnant.”
Why Care For The Earth If It Is All Going To Burn? Eschatology And Ecology
The Seventh-day Adventist understanding of end-time events involves the reality that the earth will burn at the end of time. Unfortunately, assumptions that God will renew the earth anyway often translates into neglecting the environment. This inaccurate understanding overlooks the clear descriptions of God’s care for the earth and human ecological responsibility in the original creation, the new earth, and all laws for the present. Eschatological passages include a picture of earth restored and rejuvenated, rather than annihilated and recreated from nothing. Even the images of fire burning at the end of time do not imply that the earth will be totally consumed. Eschatology presupposes and necessitates ecological care in the present, rather than opposing it.
Divine Rest and the Environmental Imperative
If any people should have an understanding of the connection between end-time prophecies and the environmental catastrophe engulfing the world today, it would have to be Seventh-day Adventists. After all, the first of the three angels of Revelation calls for all to “fear God and give glory to Him...
Entrusted: Christians and Environmental Care
Stephen Dumbar, L. James Gibson, and Humberto M. Rasi, eds. Entrusted: Christians and Environmental Care. Argentina: Adventus, 2013. x + 286 pp. US$19.95. How should Bible-believing Christians respond to environmental degradation? Entrusted , with its twenty-three chapters, is a response to this...
Biogeography: Dispersal or Vicariance of Tropical Trees?
Recently C. W. Dick, E. Bermingham, M. R. Lemes, and R. Gribel published the interesting article “Extreme long-distance of the lowland tropical rainforest tree Ceiba pentandra L. (Malvaceae) in Africa and the Neotropics” in Molecular Ecology 16 (2007):3039-3049. Ceiba pentandra is a rainfore...
Time and Geology: a Positive Perspective
Current thinking in the geologic community accepts and promotes time frames and interpretations of depositional systems that are problematic with respect to the belief system of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Because radiometric dating and order in the fossil record are globally recognized and...
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Is tithing normative for Christians? For some, a cursory look at the passages on tithing shows that in biblical times the tithe functioned primarily to sustain the Levites and priests as their reward for the service of the sanctuary and, therefore, because Jesus’ death brought an end to the sacri...
The Character of God through the Lens of Creation
The Genesis creation account not only explains the origins of the world and humanity; it also offers profound insight into the character of the Creator. At the outset, we should note that the placement of Genesis 1 at the opening of Scripture is profoundly significant. As J. Richard Middleton obs...
Why Didn't Adam and Eve Die Immediately?
Because Adam and Eve did not die on the exact day that they ate of the forbidden fruit, it is sometimes claimed that since one day is with the Lord as a thousand years (2 Pet 3:8) and Adam lived less than a thousand years (Gen 5:5), Adam, therefore, did die within that one-thousand-year “day.” An...