What Does the Bible Say About Climate Change?
Nat Theo Nature Lessons Rooted in the Bible
Eryn Lynum
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you have questions about climate change? We all do. What is it and is it really happening? Most importantly, what does the Bible say about climate change? Wait...what? The Bible talks about climate change? It does!
Today we'll explore what's really happening, what God says about a changing planet, and why we should not live in fear. Plus, we'll explore a few fun ideas for caring for God's creation!
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Scriptures referenced in this episode:
"And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.'” Genesis 1:24
"And to Adam he said, 'Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.'" Genesis 3:17-18
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. . . And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’” Revelation 21:2,5
"The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it." Genesis 2:15
Facts and sources for this episode:
From 1880 to 1980, the combined temperature of land and sea rose a total of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit. (Rooted In Wonder, research from this article on climate.gov)
There was a previous warming period that lasted around 400 years between 800 and 1200 AD (or some point to 900-1300 AD). (From Answers in Genesis and A Different Shade of Green by Dr. Gordon Wilson)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Nat Theo podcast, where we explore nature, the Bible, and what both of them |
| 0:10.1 | show us about our Creator God, who made this wild and wonderful world. I'm Erin Linum, Master |
| 0:19.2 | Naturalist, Bible teacher, and author. And I am so excited to explore |
| 0:25.2 | God's word and his created world with you. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi listeners. Before we get into today's super fascinating conversation about climate change, |
| 0:41.4 | I want to answer one of your questions. Last episode, we talked about monarchs and milkweed |
| 0:47.0 | and how the monarch caterpillar has learned how to survive on a toxic plant by cutting toxins off |
| 0:54.0 | at their source. |
| 0:55.5 | And some of you had a great question and asked what I mean by learned. |
| 1:00.1 | First off, what I don't mean by learned is evolution. |
| 1:03.9 | Evolution is the theory that one kind of animal can change into another kind of animal, |
| 1:08.5 | but God's word says otherwise. |
| 1:13.4 | Genesis 1.24, God said, |
| 1:19.8 | let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, livestock and creeping things, |
| 1:25.3 | and beast of the earth according to their kinds. Animals always produce after their own kind and don't change from one species to another. |
| 1:27.9 | So what did I mean by learned? |
| 1:30.3 | What I meant is the idea of changing or adapting because of your surroundings. |
| 1:35.4 | Think about if you lived in Siberia, where it's super cold, and you move to Phoenix, Arizona, where it can be really warm and hot. |
| 1:46.6 | Well, you would have to change some things about the way you live, right? You'd have to learn how to do well in those new surroundings. |
| 1:53.0 | And God has given animals the ability to do that also. And so when sin entered the world |
| 1:59.2 | and it broke our planet in a whole lot of ways, including |
| 2:02.5 | the introduction of toxins and poisons, the monarchs needed to learn and adapt how to live and |
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