Does this mean we will stand against the exploitation and degradation of the environment? Of course, for nature, the nonhuman world, matters not just for our future; it matters to God. Here one of the most familiar passages in the whole of the Christian Bible says it so simply: “For God so loved the world” (John 3:16). Not just you and me and us, not just Christians, not just people, but God so loved the world. The world matters to God. “The earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it” (Ps. 24:1). It is not there for us to divide up, so that some people get a lot of it and other people get none
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