Is there something in the Bible that mentions using resources wisely?

Question

I'm looking for something that can be used in reference to recycling. I'm trying to convince my religious neighbors to start recycling. I figure since none of the obvious reasons for recycling appeal to them, perhaps an order from God would.

Just so you know, we're are friends, so I'm not being mean about it.

Answer 1

I don't see it happening. If you believe the end is coming soon, what's to stop you from being frivolous and wasting everything? Christians don't make very good environmentalists. See the answer above mine? Exactly my point!

Answer 2

WHY???? Recycling is nonsense!!

RECYCLING FACTS:

1. RECYCLING DOES NOT SAVE MONEY. New York City’s mandatory recycling program costs the taxpayers of New York City $57 million every fiscal year! The city spends $240 per ton to recycle when it only costs $130 per ton to place the waste in landfills. It is actually more expensive to recycle paper, plastic, glass, and metal than to just throw it away!

2. RECYCLING PAPER DOES NOT SAVE TREES. Although the United States is the world’s number one lumber producer our forests have INCREASED in volume over the last 50 years and have maintained the same areas for the last 75 years. Millions of new trees are planted every year in the United States. Plus, most of the trees used for paper are from business owned and operated tree farms. In fact, corporate tree farms account for over 85% of total tree planting and seeding in the United States.

3. RECYCLING PAPER ACTUALLY PRODUCES WASTE: Recycling paper involves taking it to a mill where it is shredded and bleached. This process produces a bleach/ink sludge.

4. LANDFILLS ARE NOT BAD AND WILL NOT OVERTAKE US. Remember in the late 1980’s how we were told that garbage would overtake the nation? Never happened. In fact, today’s newer landfills are larger in size. If you combined all the landfill space in the United States into one location it wouldn’t even occupy a quarter of Rhode Island.

5. If you don’t believe a conservative like me then listen to this statement, “Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America.” Thus wrote the liberal-biased New York Times.

*** There is one exception to the recycling lie. Recycling aluminum cans is a good thing, NOT because of the environment, but because there is an actual profit to be made from recycling aluminum. ***

Answer 3

God created creatures and Man destroys His creatures. Man POLLUTES the earth that God gave us. I think any 'religious' types who think recycling is bad have their heads up their butts.

Answer 4

Well, Father K is correct on the recycling issue -- it's a bunch of garbage. (no pun intended)

Second, please refer back to Genesis 1:27, 1:28 etc, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

Mankind is in the image of the Creator (uh, who is, after all, creative....); he is charged with subduing the earth, and having dominion over it. Recycling, is, it seems, against God's commandments.

Mankind has always been able to create new resources, and new technologies. Those who believe that there limits to growth, limits to mankind, and limits to resources, have not yet understood God's laws, that are written even in the firmament.

"And it was Good."

Answer 5

Well Adam was instructed by God to till the ground of the earth and he meant for him to take care of it in Genesis 2:5. I'm certain that God wants us to take care of his earth any way we can.

Answer 6

Nope, sorry.