Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Aronofsky on stewardship

Darren Aronofsky, director of "Noah" and self-described atheist, had a surprising article in Huff Post.  Here he talks about God assigning responsibility for the natural world to Adam:

"Like it or not, we do preside over this world [God gave dominion to humankind].  The question is simply how we will choose to exercise that power ...God breathes the soul into Adam and places him in the Garden “to tend and to keep it.”... we are asked to hold the planet and its inhabitants in our safekeeping. It is our first responsibility. Made in God’s image as we are, possessing the power to create and destroy worlds, holding dominion over the globe and its inhabitants, we are asked to be good stewards. We have taken the dominion that was offered us. Have we taken the responsibility of stewardship?"

 A Christian could have written this.  He's not a believer, but he has described fairly the stewardship mission that God gave to humanity in Genesis.

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