One of the students from CHRCT 351 stopped me after church yesterday (yes, there are still young people who go to church), and we had a bit of a follow up chat.
The topic under discussion was the ethic of "what is natural". Before we get into that particular question, you need to back up a bit and get yourself a worldview, or realize that you already have one, and take a look at how it shapes your understanding of particular and specific questions. If you think that nature as we experience it is, in some way, perfect and complete, then you will have an entirely positive view of doing "what is natural". If however, you hold to the Christian worldview that nature as we experience it is not exactly the same as creation as God intended it, then you will have some work to do. You will need to figure out how and where the intention of God is, and is not, reflected in what we call "nature" - human and otherwise. That is the result of what we have come to call "the fall" - creation is broken. It is not beyond redemption, it still reflects somewhat of God, but what is natural is not always what is godly.
We'll be talking more later today.
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