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Originally Posted by Ohio

This is bogus. Sure Adam was instructed to "tend the garden," but where are the commandments condemning me for turning on my furnace, driving my car to work, buying materials for my house, cooking my dinner, charging my cell phone, etc. Everything I do requires energy. At what point does that become "damage?"

I believe these commandments begin with God giving an inheritance to each tribe. If they pollute that land they pollute their children's inheritance. This aligns perfectly with Adam being responsible for tending and guarding the garden. The land is not simply for you but also for your children. If you damage your children's inheritance then you bring a curse on your own family.

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel. Numbers 35:33-34

Pollution kills innocent people. Toxic waste dumps, cutting corners building nuclear power plants, Cancer, polluted water, polluted land.

And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. Jeremiah 2:7

I have lived in the oil patch (West Texas), I have lived near large oil refineries (Houston). The land is defiled and an abomination. Have you been to a beach on the Gulf of Mexico, little round black balls of tar everywhere from untold oil leaks from offshore drilling.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 2Peter 2:20

All of the various polluting industries are simply the defilements of the world.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. John3:16-20

That is what we saw with the tobacco industry. That is what we have seen with asbestos. That is what we have just learned about Exxon and the oil industry. Do you realize where much of the oil comes from? In Somalia and Nigeria and other parts of Africa they slaughter the Christians to steal their land so that the oil companies can develop it and the Muslims will get the profit.

Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away. Hosea 4:1-3

This is true of all big business, but the judgement by God is that the beasts of the field are taken away (clear cutting) and even the fish of the sea are taken away (offshore drilling, factory fishing).