It is only because people believed that man according to the Judeo-Christian world view, must conquer nature that we now have these machines that are greatly benefiting humanity.
When I look around and see the church of today however, I am saddened and sick to my stomach, because of our doctrines and wrong interpretation of the Christian faith. Most churches today make the Christian faith including scriptures like the one I quoted above to only be of spiritual use rather than for practical exploration and exploitation of nature.
Unfortunately, the church today is no longer equipping the believers in the pews to go conquer nature. We are no more encouraging people through the word of God to go and become masters of the sea world. Some churches rather put the fear of the waters and the sea world in believers. I sometimes hear of churches that talk about water spirits and scare believers away from going near the sea world. This must change if our continent is to see the brightness of the day.
It is not fear we are called to instill in people. No, no, no! We are rather called to instill faith in what God said about man into people’s minds. We should preach so that…
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