What does the Bible say about global warming?
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The Bible teaches that the created world belongs to God, is affected by human sin, and will ultimately be renewed by his righteous judgment and saving purpose. Genesis 2:15 calls humanity to cultivate and keep the earth as faithful stewards, while Leviticus 18:24-28 and Isaiah 24:5-6 warn that covenant-breaking rebellion brings defilement and judgment. Genesis 8:22 assures us of God's sustaining providence in the seasons, yet it does not excuse carelessness or deny God's final reckoning. Jesus speaks of distress among the nations and signs in creation in Luke 21:25. 2 Peter 3:10-12 directs believers to live holy, expectant lives, trusting God to bring a new heavens and new earth.
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- Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
- Isaiah 24:5-6
[5] The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. [6] Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
- Luke 21:25
There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
- 2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
- Leviticus 18:24-28
[24] "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. [25] The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants. [26] You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; [27] (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled); [28] that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
- Leviticus 20:22
"'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
- Malachi 4:1-6
[1] "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. [2] But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall. [3] You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Hosts. [4] "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. [5] Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. [6] He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."
- 2 Peter 3:12
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
- Genesis 2:15
Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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