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<blockquote data-quote="linux.poet" data-source="post: 77472431" data-attributes="member: 443852"><p>I'm pretty sure the Christian perspective on this is that modern human beings are pursuing their own comfort at the expense of the creation. We are selfishly using the creation's resources to feed our own sinful appetites. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My pastor preached a sermon on this passage where he made this point. It is beyond our abilities, however, to stop this phenomenon and its consequences. While we long for a better relationship to the creation - we are literally dust of the ground, the same dust from which trees grow - as our bodies take from the creation more than it can sustain to keep us alive and well for as long as possible, there's no way to fix it. We either take from the creation and subject it to pain in order to sustain these finite forms, or we suffer. The only solution is a new creation and a new body, anything else is continually patching a truly unsolvable problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="linux.poet, post: 77472431, member: 443852"] I'm pretty sure the Christian perspective on this is that modern human beings are pursuing their own comfort at the expense of the creation. We are selfishly using the creation's resources to feed our own sinful appetites. My pastor preached a sermon on this passage where he made this point. It is beyond our abilities, however, to stop this phenomenon and its consequences. While we long for a better relationship to the creation - we are literally dust of the ground, the same dust from which trees grow - as our bodies take from the creation more than it can sustain to keep us alive and well for as long as possible, there's no way to fix it. We either take from the creation and subject it to pain in order to sustain these finite forms, or we suffer. The only solution is a new creation and a new body, anything else is continually patching a truly unsolvable problem. [/QUOTE]
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