Climate Change

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Nope, again you are unable to hear. You have become dull of hearing.

I spoken at great length about this. Saying that in 1950 the US might have been able to do something to avoid climate change catastrophes is a great departure from my position, but is simply me being extremely generous to those unable to receive the truth.

My position is that King Solomon was the last best chance for humanity to avoid the catastrophe. Why? Because a small country of a few million people in a local region like Israel that was completely cut off from the rest of the world for several hundred years would have allowed us to develop our Industry and technology with limited damage and by the time the rest of the world discovered and adopted it they could have completely skipped the dirty phase of this development.

So what does the NT say about this? Your wisdom is turned to foolishness. The wisest among you is a fool compared to God. There is no suggestion anywhere that there is still an option to avoid the great tribulation. Jesus and the disciples saw this coming 2,000 years ago.

Is there any reason to think the entire world could be united to respond to a coming catastrophe predicted by scientists by doing something harmful to their economy and power today? No. If so, they would have responded to the prophecies about the great tribulation.

If the answer to the last question is no, then everything else you are doing is trivial bloviating and has no chance of success. Ohio has repeatedly asked you this and you simply avoid the question.

Nowhere have I ever suggested or hinted that climate change is going to bring the Lord back. What I have said is that none of this will cause lasting damage to the Earth. You may lose 1/3 of our ecosystems, but that will be temporary, they'll be completely restored. You may lose several billion people, but also will be a temporary issue. It will only take 1,000 years to restore the Earth, and in Geologic time that is like a day. My glory hallelujah is not that man has sinned and rebelled against God, but rather that God saw this and will completely deal with it and clean it up.

There are numerous problems with your theory. I'll mention two. 1) people who expect God's intervention to "clean up the environmental mess" tend to live in environmentally irresponsible ways and to accept or promote environmentally irresponsible public policies. 2) the notion that God intervenes in history is not scientifically tenable. In other words, there are simpler more probable explanations for historical events of the past then divine intervention. Which is not to say it's theologically impossible since it is proposed in the Bible that for God all things are possible. But science works in terms of probability. And when things can be explained more simply without recourse to supernatural causation, such explanations are more probable. Just sayin'.