What does the Bible say about mother nature?

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The Bible teaches that nature is not a divine mother but God’s good creation, sustained by him and entrusted to human care. In Genesis 1:26-28, God makes humanity in his image and gives us responsible dominion over the earth; Genesis 2:15 describes this calling as tending and keeping the garden. Creation itself declares God’s majesty, as Psalms 8 and 148 proclaim, and Job 12:7-10 says every creature depends on his hand. Yet creation now groans under sin’s curse, awaiting renewal through Christ, according to Romans 8:19-22. God alone is Creator, Father, and Savior, who lovingly redeems both his people and ultimately his fallen world.

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  • Genesis 1:26

    God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

  • Genesis 1:28

    God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  • Genesis 2:15

    Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • Romans 8:19-22

    [19] For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. [20] For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope [21] that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. [22] For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

  • Psalms 8:1-9

    [1] > Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, Who has set your glory above the heavens! [2] From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. [3] When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained; [4] What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him? [5] For you have made him a little lower than God, And crowned him with glory and honor. [6] You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: [7] All sheep and oxen, Yes, and the animals of the field, [8] The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, And whatever passes through the paths of the seas. [9] Yahweh, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth!

  • Job 12:7-10

    [7] "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. [8] Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you. [9] Who doesn't know that in all these, The hand of Yahweh has done this, [10] In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?

  • Genesis 2:7

    Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • Psalms 148:1-5

    [1] Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! [2] Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his host! [3] Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! [4] Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens. [5] Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they were created.

  • Isaiah 66:13

    As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

  • John 3:16-17

    [16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. [17] For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

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