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| If we love God we'll take care of God's creation |
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth", or so the first verse of the Bible is often translated and this has been the dominant rendering of Genesis 1:1 since the Greek Septuagint, the first major translation of the Hebrew Bible (into Greek), produced by Jewish scholars in the third century BC. There is now some debate as to whether this is the best way to understand precisely what the original words would have meant to their first audience, but that isn't relevant here.
If all the Christians and Jews the world over believe God made our world, whether they believe in a literal six day creation or that there was a certain amount of divine intervention in the Big Bang and the formation of our Earth, I would also expect them to believe our world is a pretty special place and so we should all be doing our best to look after it.
As writer Veronica Zundel tweeted recently,
"God's chief interest in life is not religion, but the world, and especially (but not exclusively) human beings."
