Fr. Mike+

Exactly so.  Genesis 3 indicates that even our
pre-Jewish ancestors recognized that nature and "the
time is out of joint" because of the sin of man.  My
point was that our emphasis on our resurrection and
our concern about the immortality of our souls has
eclipsed all else.  

I'm not saying that we shouldn't say the creed or be
concerned about our relationship with God, I'm simply
saying we are so preoccupied with this we give scant
attention to anything else, and are the poorer for it.

Charles+   






--- Michael Ward <mward@...> wrote:

> Charles+
> 
> <snip>It seems to me our repetition of the creed,
> our concentration on
> "the resurrection of the dead and the life of the
> world to come",
> coupled with the emphasis on the "salvation of the
> soul" or "immortality
> of the soul" has led us to concentrate on the
> restoring of our lives and
> to neglect the fleshing out our understanding of
> "the restoration of all
> things."
> 
> One of the problems with the more rabid "green"
> movement is that it
> forgets that even though there is the restoration of
> all things, man is
> the pinnacle of creation (hence, the most important
> part).  God did not
> create the trees and the animals to commune with him
> in a personal and
> free way in the same way that he created mankind for
> those things.  It
> was a man who brought all of creation to despair
> through sin, and it as
> a Man who redeemed it.  So I'd argue that the
> emphasis on the redemption
> of mankind is valid because it is that redemption
> that redeems all of
> creation through our stewardship of it.  We've just
> proven to be lousy
> stewards.
> 
> MLW+
> 
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