I'm a rather contemplative person. Today on my walk I was thinking about the natural world and specifically the suffering of animals. Examples related to my overall question would include animal specific diseases that don't affect humans but cause animals to suffer and die from them.
Humans have and presumably will continue to discover and invent cures for animal diseases. If said cures are related to wild animals, then the efforts, discoveries, etc could be viewed as selfless acts of kindness toward animals.
From a Christian perspective, how could such endeavors to help animals be considered "doing the Lord's work" since God more than anything else could have eased or prevented said animal suffering, but didn't? Such acts of kindness toward animals by humans would be a human endeavor rather than divine, divinely inspired, etc., no?
Ultimately the question related to the above is, how were human's acts of kindness toward animals not superior to God's inaction to help alleviate the suffering of the wild animals?
Humans have and presumably will continue to discover and invent cures for animal diseases. If said cures are related to wild animals, then the efforts, discoveries, etc could be viewed as selfless acts of kindness toward animals.
From a Christian perspective, how could such endeavors to help animals be considered "doing the Lord's work" since God more than anything else could have eased or prevented said animal suffering, but didn't? Such acts of kindness toward animals by humans would be a human endeavor rather than divine, divinely inspired, etc., no?
Ultimately the question related to the above is, how were human's acts of kindness toward animals not superior to God's inaction to help alleviate the suffering of the wild animals?
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