Christianity Provides A Unified Answer For The

Christians, Of All People, Should Not Be Destroyers. We Should Treat Nature With An Overwhelming Respect. We May Cut Down A Tree To Build A House, Or To Make A Fire To Keep The Family Warm. But We Should Not Cut Down The Tree Just To Cut Down The Tree. We May, If Necessary, Bark The Cork Tree In Order To Have The Use Of The Bark. But What We Should Not Do Is To Bark The Tree Simply For The Sake Of Doing So, And Let It Dry And Stand There A Dead Skeleton In The Wind. To Do So Is Not To Treat The Tree With Integrity.

Modern Man Has Not Only Thrown Away Christian Theology, He Has Thrown Away The Possibility Of What Our Forefathers Had As A Basis For Morality And Law.

The Inward Area Is The First Place Of Loss Of True Christian Life, Of True Spirituality, And The Outward Sinful Act Is The Result.

There Needs To Be An Order Of Office, But In Every Single Office That Is Presented In The Scriptures There Is The Personal Emphasis Within That Legal Concept. In The Church The Elder Is An Office-bearer. But Both The Preaching Elders And The Ruling Elders Are "ministers," And The Word "minister" Is A Personal Relationship, It Does Not Speak Of Dominance. There Is To Be Order In The Church, But The Preaching Elder Or The Ruling Elder Is To Be A Minister, With A Loving Personal Relationship With Those Who Are Before Him, Even When They Are Wrong And Need Admonition.

No Totalitarian Authority Nor Authoritarian State Can Tolerate Those Who Have An Absolute By Which To Judge That State And Its Actions. The Christians Had That Absolute In God's Revelation.