What motivates Christians to sustainable to live in the ecological sense?
I would like to illustrate this motivation in the labeling as "likeness" of God. In the biblical account of creation is
interpreted human existence as a creaturely existence: I am being surrounded by other creatures. All owe their lives to God. The man is from the other creatures - the animals under the sky, in the seas and in the country - distinguished by the fact that he was "the image of God." In the ancient Near East, this award is usually given only to kings. The Bible says now that all human king status, and thus have rights to rule. But they should not exercise their power with each other but towards animals. However, not to kill them, but to "control" and to preserve it. 1.28-31 gene requires vegetarianism.
Man has lost the image of God, because he wanted to exceed the limits of his rule and has exceeded. Of these, the chapters provide 3-11 in first Genesis. All the "lack of glory, they should have with God," Now, Paul writes in Romans 3 and alluding to the lost image of God. In place of the conservationist was destructive, exploitative domination of man over himself, over his fellow creatures and to nature.
The new and final image of God is God Son, the man Jesus. He has defined depth, which means likeness of God: mercy ("Be merciful as God is merciful"), compassion, love of enemies, surrender, reconciliation. Succession, that is life in being for others (Bonhoeffer).
In faith we connected with Christ and thus also associated with his mercy and his compassion in relationships. We are "in Christ" renewed images of God become the in-depth manner maintain a compassionate and loving relationship with the world around us.
An ecologically sustainable lifestyle is so essential to being a Christian. Reconciliation refers not only to other people, but also to the animals and the whole co-creation.
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