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Q's
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Is There Hope for the
Earth?
God's purpose in Christ is to heal and bring
to wholeness not only persons but the entire created
order. In Jesus Christ, believers are forgiven,
transformed and brought into God's kingdom. "If
anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation"
(II Cor. 5:17). The presence of the kingdom of
God is marked not only by renewed fellowship with
God, but also by renewed harmony and justice between
people, and by renewed harmony and justice between
people and the rest of the created world. "You
will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills will burst into song
before you, and all the trees of the field will
clap their hands" (Isa. 55:12). We believe
that in Christ there is hope, not only for men,
women and children, but also for the rest of creation
which is suffering from the consequences of human
sin. (“An
Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation”) |
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