Does sin effect the environment?

Question

I have this theory that sin effects the environment. I don't know why I think this I just do. It seems when ever sin is great in a land the earths environment gets thrown into chaos. I don't think God does this but I think that when sin is practiced it gives powers to Satans dominion and as a result Satan gains control over the weather in that region. I just saw a car get blown into another which hit another car one which badly injured a man. God is in control of everything so why such violence in weather?

What comes to mind is that our enemy is the prince of the air. Does this mean Satan controls the weather if God allows it? Its almost like when sin is so great God stops protecting and blessing and allows Satan to have his way until people repent.

I guess my theory is that God judges by letting Satan go hog whiled on the unrepentant society.

Prophets had predicted Katrina months before she hit. "A mighty wind would purge the south of sin and expose injustice." ~International House of Prayer

BTW Christians do help with natural disasters more than any other organization unless the national Guard declares it unsafe!

CRG I love how you mentioned the Kingdom! I wasn't just talking about weather I was talking about the over all well being of a nation that praises sin.

Answer 1

Michael, exactly...in my views pollution, waste, littering, cutting down the Rainforests, etc are "sins". So yes, it does affect the environment.

Answer 2

Our spirits create very powerful energies. Often so powerful, we must let a little of the energy off much like a pressure cooker lets off a little steam. To keep it from injuring our physical body.These are called thoughtforms, but are really masses of energy, that are made up of the energy that create it. Lust, anger, violence.
These so-called evil spirits can enter us when we are experiencing the same energy, and make us go overboard in our reaction. Like Overkill in homocide situations. Or the way many are "snapping" over seemingly small matters today.
Hell is the reality that the magnetic center of the Earth draws these energies there as well. And a spirit can get temporarily caught up in this reality if it falls into violence or fear.
James Redfield in the Celestine Prophesy books calls it the Fear. Note how Isaiah 24:18 in the KJV is worded.

Answer 3

When God created the earth, and all that there is in it, He said that it was GOOD. He also commanded Man (Adam/Eve) to have "dominion" over it... to be RESPONSIBLE for it.

When Adam/Eve sinned, however, sin "entered" the world, and death was known. And, I fear, the command to be responsible for the earth's care also went out the window, so to speak.

However, you cannot "blame" God for droughts, floods, earthquakes, storms, winds, etc etc etc.... not unless He has TOLD us He was responsible for certain weather events.... i.e.. Noah's flood. Otherwise, please do not misuse the idea that "God is in control of everything." That does not mean that God CONTROLS and MANIPULATES everything. Rather, it means that God is "able" to control everything ... IF HE WILLS IT.

Satan's power, I feel, does not extend to control of weather... UNLESS GOD ALLOWS IT.

You seem to have the idea that God and satan are some sort of petty, quarrelling beings, and that mankind is just a pawn haplessly stuck between them. This is a rather Greek/Romanesque view of "the gods," but has nothing to do with the truth.


Have a blessed day.

Answer 4

Interesting thought.... I believe some social sins, such as racism or violence, can definitely lead to harm in the environment when riots or fights occur. You also have to keep in mind that people are part of the environment too, so when we are harmed our ecosystem is as well. As for weather, that might be stretching it a bit. I think about this a lot too: "If God can do everything, why _________". But He works in mysterious ways we cannot understand, and He does what is best for us. But I do believe He has control over Satin. It basically comes down to, for me, that sin always hurts ourselves and affects others. Weather, I think, is just a force of nature. I admire the deep thinking.

Answer 5

Sounds like some ridiculous Pat Buchanan or Jerry Falwell nonsense, somebody like that.

Heard it about Katrina, heard it about the tsunami, hear it every time there's a natural disaster.

And why is it that instead of demanding their followers help victims of natural disasters, some religious-type leaders use tragedy as an opportunity to denounce sin? Wouldn't it be much better to insist that their followers show charity and mercy rather than sitting in smug judgment about other people's supposed sins?

I don't think Jesus would have said that Katrina was caused by gay marriage.

Answer 6

I wouldn't say punishing. There just happens to be human effects on the environment that effect all life on planet earth. I really hadn't thought how increased temperatures effects crops and feed. As well as heating, depriving ourselves of oxygen, damaging arctic life, we are also making production of metabolic resources more difficult. I am doing something about it. So are you, but its not me and you that are really responsible for co2 emission in total, it's the oil millionaire CEOS. If you are helping to destroy all life on earth, you shouldn't be paid millions, you should be in prison or given the death penalty. Only through man can nature punish.

Answer 7

I am impressed with your reasoning and just so wish there were more people like you who are starting to question these real things.
God makes it very clear in the Bible that this world will be going through a terrible time, earthquakes, tsunami's, and unheard of weather patterns. This is all the start of birth pains. You see man has turned his back on God and has gone his own way, even Christians today don't believe in His gospel of the water and the Spirit (John3:5), and only believe in a half baked gospel of only the blood on the Cross making Him a liar, and they continually mock Him in their ignorance.
So these are times of severe warnings, if we would take heed of them and return back to God we will be saved. Just look at the account of Noah. Many perished in the flood but only 8 were saved, have you ever asked why? Jesus said, as in the time of Noah so shall it be when He returns. So when we look around us we can see that this is such a time. These many people perished because they refused to believe in the righteous message of Noah, that being the flood or water. So like today, many people refuse to believe in the full atoning sacrifice of the water and the blood and because of this they are going to be destroyed. Will you also be caught up in this stubborn crowd?

Answer 8

You are somewhat close to the kingdom of God, not because of the truth or quality of your statements, but because you are thinking and asking questions.
The environment is more than wind or weather. It is also quality of life. The atmosphere of this media--Yahoo--is sometimes very depressing and sad because so many children are obsessed with sex. Do emotions and negative vibes affect the environment? No. So, perhaps, neither does sin.

Answer 9

I would say that sin definitely affects the environment.

I read a very interesting article on this....

Earthscan, a “news and information service on global development and environment issues,” published a report entitled Natural Disasters—
“Disasters are increasingly man-made. Some disasters (flood, drought, famine) are caused more by environmental and resource mismanagement than by too much or too little rainfall. . . . Disasters are social and political events which can be and often are prevented. In the Third World where the poor are forced to overuse their land and live on dangerous ground, disasters are taking a rising toll.”

Consider how acts of man have brought about so-called acts of God. One night in May 1943 about 330 million tons of water poured into valleys in the western part of Germany. An act of God? No. It was caused by the bombing of the Möhne and Eder dams by British warplanes in World War II. Some 1,294 people drowned in the floods, and most were civilians.

One African newspaper charged: “Not all the agony [of droughts] can be blamed on the weather. . . . Wars from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic shore and back to Mozambique have sent peasants fleeing from their croplands.” Ethiopia’s drought, for example, has been aggravated by years of civil war that has destroyed grasslands.

Thanks to modern technology, farmers are now able to plow vast tracts of land—including areas that ecologists say should not have been plowed in the first place. National Geographic said “Speculators and hard-pressed ranchers have been plowing up hundreds of thousands of acres of fragile grasslands to grow wheat . . . These soils easily blow when it’s dry, and prolonged drought on the plains, like the one that led to the Dust Bowl [a drought-stricken area of the United States during the 1930’s] is only a matter of time.”

Already, some grazing lands in that region are covered with a blanket of soil reaching up to the fence posts. One cattle rancher thus affected said: “It’s not an act of God. It’s an act of greed. God doesn’t have a plow.” Mohandas Gandhi put it well when he said: “There is enough for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s greed.”

However, some would say it is the livestock raisers who are greedy. Some stock so many animals that the lands are overgrazed. And while they may get away with doing so for years, when drought strikes, overgrazed lands can turn into a permanent desert.

Then there are developers who chop down trees, ignoring the ecological consequences. There is much more to this loss of trees than a loss of raw material for energy and for building. Deforestation destroys well-established water cycles, leading to siltation of streams and rivers, depletion of ground water, intensified flooding, and an aggravation of water shortages during dry periods.”

An example of this can be seen in the Himalayas. “Forests in the foothills,” says the book Our Hungry Earth—The World Food Crisis, “are fast disappearing. As a result, floods are getting worse in South Asia. A 1973 flood in Pakistan destroyed large amounts of stored grain. And in 1974, floods in Bangladesh and India damaged crops almost as much as drought.”

“People are changing their environment to make it more prone to some disasters, and are behaving so as to make themselves more vulnerable to those hazards. Growing Third World populations are forced to overcultivate, deforest and generally overuse their land, making it more prone to both floods and droughts

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I think this is the major reason why there is such devastating weather. I'm not sure whether Satan really controls weather or not but he sure has a big part in helping mankind become greed and selfish. It makes a vicious circle. When God caused the flood in Noah's day, he made sure everyone was warned and I can't see a loving God being indiscriminate in his justice.

Answer 10

Most of the time - um... well when you sin usually you are mad. When you are mad sometimes you throw stuff etc. By doing that stuff it is chaos, but not that HUGE. And chaos will eventually come into the environment. That would make the environment effected.