What Is The Argument Of Steven Bouuma-Prediger

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The author of this book Steven Bouma-Prediger main argument is Christians need to live more earth-careful lives and being called to be caretakers is not optional. The responsibility to care for the earth is a part of our faith. Early in the book the authors takes you back to your first encounter with nature he does to make his topic relevant and personal to the reader. He then opposes his first question, how much do we actually know about where we live? He states that this question shows us how little we know about our trees, plants, flowers, and the patterns of the moon. This is also his first argument in which he said if we do not know our earth we are destine to use and abuse it. Understanding and caring about nature is necessary to live properly on this earth. Chapter 1 (page 21) “we are for what we love, we love only what we know, we truly know only what we experience. Chapter 2 was his observation on what is wrong with the world. His thoughts were “the state of earth is not good, and our home planet is being degraded. For example population is increase which means more pollution which is …show more content…

Being called to be caretaker’s is not optional. The responsibility to care for earth is a part of our faith. Being that I'm stilling understanding the bible myself I just think of Roman 12:2 s “don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know Gods will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. My argument on why this chapter is the least persuasive is because I believe as a christian it would be hard not to conform to the patterns of this world as a caretaker. Many things come into play when trying to raise a family and you are most likely always doing things that are not necessarily taking care of the world like driving and every day

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