confess the absolute sovereignty of God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - over all the creation, and therefore also over our life, our time, our talents and our goods.

"The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it." (Ps 24.1)

recognize the joy of God in the totality of God's work, and the blessing on this creation:

the universe of space - sun, moon, stars...
our habitat and all that emerges therein - the earth, the plant and animal kingdom...
humanity - created in the image and likeness of God in its diversity of capacities, talents and cultural forms.

"God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good." (Gen 1.31)

"The Lord rejoices in his works." (Ps 104.31)

accept that the whole of God's work is aimed at full interrelation and interdependence for mutual benefit and growth. The creation in its totality is called to praise God.

"Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted." (Ps 148.13)

affirm that the only way to ensure that God's creative work does not lose its original meaning and purpose is to live in the justice of the kingdom, making our own the values embodied by Jesus Christ.

"Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things will be given to you as well." (Mt 6.33)

"Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." (Amos 5.24)

confess the individual and social sin that, in the midst of all God's greatness, the human ambition "to be like God" (Gen 2.5) leads to disobedience to his will, displacing it from the centre of life. In this way, the full relation that God intended is broken and men and women are turned against men and women, nature and God, giving rise to alienation, destruction, war, invasion, violence as a means of resolving conflicts, degradation, and death.

"The wages of sin is death." (Roman 6.23)

Today we see the sin that destroys God's plan in the form of a worldwide economic-cultural-political-educative-ecological and social project, appearing as neoliberalism and sustained by the globalization of the mass media of communication, through which a few people accumulate enormous wealth while the great majority of the population is condemned to poverty, hunger, disease, ignorance, exploitation, and marginalization. In other words, instead of having full access to life, they barely survive. This same economic project also misuses nature by indiscriminately exploiting the air, earth and water.

Jesus came to the world to affirm life as the gift of God for the whole creation, reminding us of God's covenant.

"I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." (Jn 10.10)

"As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." (Gen 9.9-11)

For all these reasons

We affirm our unswerving hope in God's will for this world and in this age
We reject every economic, political, social and cultural project that tries to supplant God as sovereign
We denounce everything that prevents the unfolding of life in all its fullness, which God has repeatedly shown to be God's will
We denounce every act that detracts from God's joy in the work of creation in its wealth and diversity;
We reject everything that destroys the interrelation intended by God and is asserted in selfishness and individualism of every type;
We recognize that sin cannot contribute to building the world as God intends, but can only reinforce everything that separates, injures and kills;
We express our solidarity with all the women and men, the old and the young people and children, who subsist in a reality of death.
We commit ourselves to be faithful to God's will in our personal, social, religious, cultural and political life, to lift up our voice firmly against injustice in all its forms, to stand in solidarity with all the victims of all systems that are opposed to the fullness of life, to live in the abiding hope of the kingdom.

The Reformed Churches in Argentina affirm our faith in Jesus, who has already overcome the project that infringes the will of God, and we therefore commit ourselves to proclaim, to work and to live for the life that God intends for all.

Jesus said: "In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." (John 16.33).

Approved by the 35th synod of the Reformed Churches in Argentina, Tandil June 2003