have Either You or Your Church bought into the Global warming Hoax?

Do you check for spelling and grammar before you hit post? To answer your question no, we do not take any part in that myth.

 

It's never come up in my church.

 

Great gravy man...edit!

Anyhoo, we don't talk about politics at our church (well at least from the platform.) We've got too much other important stuff to talk about and it isn't appropriate. That said we do encourage people to engage in proper stewardship of all things and part of that is creation care. We believe that God has given us this world to be proper stewards of it and tend to it appropriately. Thus environmental stewardship (or conservation) is part of that ethic.

As for the "hoax" of global warming...I don't think its a hoax at all. We are going through a period of warming and the evidences of it are all over the place. Now whether humanity contributes directly to it is the better question. We need to be advocating for more environmentally conscious activities and not less. We need to advocate for lower emissions and better treatment of waste. Otherwise we fail in our basic command of stewarding the creation God gave us.

 

I don't believe it is a hoax. The planet is clearly getting warmer. Do I think it is to the extent that environmentalist claim? NO!

If the planet is as old as they claim, then how do they know that the planet has not gone through a similar warm period a million years ago? Furthermore what is the correct temperature of the planet?

 

Why is this question relevant on a Baptist Debate forum? Why would the topic even be brought up in a Baptist sermon or lesson other than as a passing comment while dicussing more general stewardship of God's creation?

 

i knoaws athid is ridiculuos. cant evern erad what thid feller sayd.

I've never seen someone have such little disregard for subjects in sentences. It's almost like he's translating his thoughts straight from Italian, since they're not always necessary in that language.

 

Well we all have our typo's and failings in editing, but here there seems to be a complete disregard altogether.

 

Short answer is NO.

Regardless of what "scientists" speculate, God is still the final authority on what happens to the earth He created. If it's within His will, Florida and NYC will be under sea water. Or the land bridge from Asia to North America will re-appear.

Just a tid-bit of information. Our local National Weather official reporting station is located on a heat island. An international airport with massive amounts of paving for runways and parking lots. During the summer the "offical" high temperature recorded is often several degrees hotter than any of the surrounding unofficial reporting sites. Sometimes the difference is so much that local weather forecasters comment there must be a malfunction in the sensor at the airport.

 

Iffen I ain't go no axe to grind, I ain't gonna bother nobody bout they's using dat dar shiften key thingy an other stuff lack dat. Cause it ain't no nevermind as long as I ken git the gist of'en of what they axed we'ns.

I've been a might touchy about that since I received an F on a term paper in college. My professor told me it was one of the better ones submitted. He was forced to give me an F because I had a typo resulting in a mis-spelled word. That was one of the rules for the paper. A spelling error would result in a failing grade. That was back in the days of manual typewriters and erasers with a little brush on one end. I didn't catch the typo and he couldn't forgive me of my sin.

 

Perhaps the best question here, for JesusFan2, is why do you believe this is a hoax?

 

Ed B, do you not think at least the contemplation of human activity belongs in a discussion about general stewardship of creation? I am with several others in that the warming of the globe is real phenomenon, however, as to whether it is simply cyclic in nature or is some degree affected by our actions, the jury is still out. I think it reasonable that we at least consider the possibility that our actions may contribute and we should continue to progress in our science and technology to attempt to arrive at producing energy which has a minimal impact. It should NOT serve, as it does in the case with many "libs", to spure creation worship and deification.

 

I think we agree on the important parts.

I think it is very reasonable to consider our stewardship of God's creation. I do not believe that the question of whether the primary source of global warming is human activity or sun spot activity has any impact on whether I should be a good steward of God's creation. It is irrelevant. We should be good stewards regardless. There are solid reasons to support clean air, clean water and clean energy initiatives without taking a side on the cause of global warming. That question digressed into a political debate long ago and as you mention, has in some cases provided an alter or cause for neo-pagans and their creation worship.

 

I believe there will global warming on the last day.:thumbs: