No. 66 Can Eels Be Sacred?

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Opening Words
“The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.” Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis

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Topic
Do we believe that nature has an intrinsic value as argued by ‘Deep Ecology’ philosopher, Arne Naess, or must all human values be concerned with human well-being?

Does the world belong to humans? Was it created for humans?
Does it matter to you if a species becomes extinct?
Do you love plants and animals as much as people?
What about skies and rocks?
Do you think life, other than human, is sacred? If so, what does that mean? What
are the implications of your belief? How do you live by or struggle with this belief?

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Closing Words
God calls us to confess and repent of attitudes which devalue creation, and which twist or ignore Biblical revelation to support our misuse of it. Forgetting that "the earth is the Lord's," we have often simply used creation and forgotten our responsibility to care for it. Evangelical Environmental Network

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. – Genesis 29-30