One of the ways Progressive Christians involve themselves in activism is through Environmentalism. “Creation Care,” as it is now called, shifts the focus from worshiping Christ to worshiping creation. This paradigm says that the greatest crisis in the world is a dying planet—rather than perishing souls lost in sin. While the Bible calls us to steward and care for the earth, it never makes this our highest priority. Yet, climate change has become a tool for social and spiritual restructuring, attempting to dethrone the King of Kings.
Climate change has never been about saving the environment. Since its origins in the 1960s, climate change has always been a pagan religious ideology, borne from a pantheistic worldview that sees the very existence of human beings as being harmful and destructive to “Mother Earth.” We’re basically parasites. This idea stems from Marxist ideology, and is precisely why population control and reduction are so integral to the climate change agenda.
Rather than biblical stewardship, the modern environmental movement has become a fear-driven religion, demanding submission to government control and eco-idolatry.
A major lobbying group created in 2006 by a group of 86 notable U.S. evangelical Christian leaders launched the Evangelical Climate Initiative, a campaign for environmental reform, calling on all Christians to push for federal legislation that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions in an effort to stem global warming.
The list of those 86 signatories and churches was scrubbed after a few years, but I managed to capture those names in my archived article: Do you see any names you recognize, besides Rick Warren?
This has been infecting the church for several decades. Back in 2013 the Christian Post promoted earth worship as a way to get engage teens and keep them from leaving the Church. In an article titled, Reversing the Trend of Teens Leaving the Church: Using Climate Change to Reengage Our Youth, author Deborah Fikes opined that we can stem the tide of teens abandoning their faith (because of shifting social opinions on gay marriage, premarital sex and abortion), by focusing them instead on the real issues of immigration reform and global warming (er, I mean Climate Change).
Who is Fikes? She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. She is a co-president of Religions for Peace, the world’s largest and most representative multi-religious coalition. A decade ago she was a representative to the United Nations and Executive Advisor for the World Evangelical Alliance, as well as an Ambassador for The Climate Group’s Clean Revolution campaign – which mobilizes leaders to address climate change in a way that promotes economic growth and improves quality of life.
I remember when The Message (a non-scholarly Bible translation by Eugene H. Peterson, who said he wrote the book in his basement), was published and people started to notice how it was twisted to incorporate New Age thought and environmentalism. Who could forget Romans 15:13, “Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy!”
I agree with Ken Ham, who warns, “The climate change movement creates fear to facilitate control. This is a religious anti-God movement that worships the creation, has man as his own god, and places the creation in dominion over man.”
Progressive Christians have attempted to bring this false ideology, this pagan worship, into the church, through speakers, conferences, sermons, workshops, podcasts, and books.
Check out these:
I’ll bet you own a bible with red letters that Jesus spoke. So do I.
The book on the left, The Green Bible, has green letters instead. Not to highlight Jesus’ words, but any verse that is creation-focused or about nature is highlighted in green font. Its introduction tells readers to “read the Bible through a green lens,” twisting Scripture to fit an environmentalist agenda.
On its back cover, it says: “Here is a Bible that helps us see that God is green.”
But Romans 1:22-25 warns us against this deception: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”
One day, God will create a new heaven and earth, and this world will melt away – look around you and take note that the only thing we can see that will remain are the precious eternal souls of the people around you.
In the end, we are called to honor God as Creator—not to replace Him with creation itself.
In my next installment, I will be taking on the folly of The Woke “gospel.”
Please look at our White Paper on Progressive Christianity, and check out the entire series on Progressive “Christianity” to learn more.
