(A Christian Perspective)
Plants-earth-water
God
made these things to work together. Each helps other to do work in
God’s plan. While they work they produce food and our beautiful earthly
home.
(1579 drawing of the Great chain of being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana)
Genesis 1:29-30
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the
whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be
yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of
the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that
has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it
was so. (NIV)
In Genesis 1 God tells us that he
created two kinds of large-bodied mammals: animals easy for humans to
tame and animals difficult to tame. God made both kinds of creatures before he created Adam and Eve.
Field
observations readily confirm that for adult mammals, herbivores prove
easy to tame while the carnivores present more of a challenge. Job
indicates that God gave us “soulish,” or nurturing, animals to serve and
please us.
That is, God designed birds and
mammals not only to provide labor, transportation, and agricultural
products but also to bring enjoyment as household pets and entertainers.
Contrasted with herbivores, carnivores make for poor agricultural
service but are easy to housebreak and train, eager to entertain, and
capable of forming deep emotional bonds with their owners.
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