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There is much in the way of biblical evidence in support of the interconnect and interactive
nature the physical and spiritual ecologies that God created.
The Holy Scriptures are filled with
countless examples, or situations, depicting how man was created to live in company and grow
both in his community and in Christ.
Let’s look at man.
Man was not meant to live nor grow
alone, in a vacuum.
In God’s ecology, people grow when we connect with others and interact
with our Creator and other people that are growing, as well. It can well be said that even at the
very beginning, in the Garden of Eden, God wanted Adam to have that suitable helper as He
knew that it was not good for Adam be alone.
Long story short, Adam falls asleep and when he
awakens, there is Eve.
He joyfully exclaims, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.”
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It is at that moment that
the institution of marriage is born, and we are told that man will leave his mother and father and
will become one flesh with his wife.
If we wish to expand even further, St. Paul compares the
relationship between man and woman to that which exists between Ghrist and His bride, the
Church. He exhorts us to love our wives as Christ loves His Church but he also states that wives
are to submit to their husbands. Ephesians 5:23 states, “For the husband is head of the wife, as
also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church
is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.”
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Stephen D. Lowe
and Mary E. Lowe believe that “…humans are divinely predestined to construct and to inhabit a
world with others. God built this social dimension into our creational DNA.
The image of God
has something to do not only with our relationship to God but with our relationship to others as
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The New King James Version
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Ge 2:23–24.
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The New King James Version
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Eph 5:23–24.
well. The two key words in social ecology are the same key words that surface in any ecology:
connections and interactions. Connections form some kind of a social bond, usually embodied in
a social organization (family, business, church, organization, institution). By comparison,
interactions refer to what transpires between the connections or the social capital that emerges
from the interactions.”
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3 Stephen D. Lowe and Mary E. Lowe,
Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age: Spiritual Growth through Online
Education
(Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018), 15.
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