HELLO FORUM
If anyone thinks Gods creation is not good today, then take a dive on the Great Barrier Reef, walk amongst the giant Redwoods in California, pat a wild panther, go whale watching, stand atop a mountain peak, admire a beautiful sunset, swim in a cool mountain stream, float down the Amazon, play with a giant red kangaroo… I think you get the picture.
True we have come a long way from Eden, and using the knowledge of good and evil we have created this artificial human world we call civilization, but nature is still nonetheless the place we long to be, and it refreshes us, and reminds us of the wonder, power and magnificence of our creator God.
We might say that rather than being “very good” it is now just “good” but even so, it beats the hi-rise steel and glass jungle we have created any day!
So is there any good apart from God today? Yes, thank God, but it is not as good as Eden was, and we are to blame! The creation groans under the pains we have inflicted, this is so very true! And yet it is still good.
Sometimes an ounce of common sense is worth a ton of scripture, particulary if we dont really understand scripture that well.