Mother Nature: Planet Earth Pagans お手軽・簡単ダイエット日記

14年01月20日
Mother Nature: Planet Earth Pagans
The earliest written and most reliably dated references to Mother Nature are found in Mycenaean Greek transcripts dated in 12 or 13 BC.

The term Mother Earth is transliterated as ma-ga or Mother Gaia. This notion had its roots in the pre-Socratic philosophers who had invented nature and it was further championed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Other cultures have embraced the notion that natur” had its own spirit and relevancy unique from God the Father.

The American Indian is one such culture that believes that there is something called an Earth Mother that provides the water of life that gives them the abundant provision of food. However, no one but God provides our basic needs of food, shelter, water and life.

The term Mother Nature serves as a kind of umbrella encompassing political and cultural ideologies such as global warming, environmentalism, and climate change.

This, in turn, has fostered a negative impact upon our world with its new discoveries making the news headlines daily:

rising temperatures, rising sea levels, savage wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, coupled with the emergence of new and even ancient diseases.

As a result, many see Mother Nature as a kind of capricious goddess who wreaks havoc throughout the earth.

The Bible makes it clear that it is God who send the rains on “the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45).

Even during the times of Christ, when tragedies both natural and human occurred frequently, Jesus made it known that “there will be famines and earthquakes in various places” (Matthew 24:7).

It is God who controls the forces of nature: “But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses” (Jeremiah 10:12-13).

Jesus demonstrated His divine power over nature by calming the raging sea (Matthew 8:26).

Another bizarre idea is that Mother Nature is somehow the wife or consort of God and she rules in heaven alongside Him. This idea of a mother and father god is seen in some Roman Catholic traditions that declare Mary to be the queen of heaven.

The Bible, however, declares that God, in the triune Godhead, rules heaven and earth alone and unaided (Daniel 4:25).

Nature is His creation and He alone sustains and protects it and in doing so, He testifies to the goodness and kindness toward it.

“He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy" (Acts 14:17)...