Baloney.
Posted on 06/06/2018 1:07:02 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says he changed his mind on the existence of man-made climate change because he “read a lot.”
“I heard a lot of experts, and I read a lot,” Bridenstine told the Washington Post on Tuesday. “I came to the conclusion myself that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that we've put a lot of it into the atmosphere and therefore we have contributed to the global warming that we've seen. And we've done it in really significant ways.”
The former congressman from Oklahoma had long denied the scientific consensus on climate change and said in a 2013 speech on the House floor that "global temperatures stopped rising 10 years ago."
In May, Bridenstine first announced publicly that he now believes human activity is the main cause of climate change.
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In general, I agree with that.
Certainly none of us can know the day nor the hour. But we can certainly know the season. The Pharisees couldn’t.
It’s hard to say. Keep praying and watching!
“This pretty much blows the idea of a ‘Trinity’ out of the water, in that this explicitly states that God is not Jesus, nor the Holy Spirit. They are separate entities.”
Sounds like you are unfamiliar with the doctrine of the Trinity. A quick search of the web can address the specifics:
The doctrine of the Trinity states that God is one but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as “one God in three Divine Persons”.
So, you would be correct to assume that such passages indicate that Jesus (the Son), God the Father, and the Holy Spirit are not the same Person. You would be incorrect to assume that any of these three are not God.
There is one God who we can know or experience as three distinct persons. And traditional Christian doctrine is that there are three (no more, and no less) persons of the Godhead who are coequal, coeternal, and consubstantial.
Coequal means each person is fully God. For example, Jesus is fully God and fully man. He is not a demigod who is only partially God. Coequal is not a statement of their authority, as the Son is fully submitted to the authority of the Father. However, God the Father has given all authority to the Son. So with respect to us and all of creation, all persons of the Godhead exercise the same full authority over the creation.
Consubstantial means they are of the same substance and essence. It speaks of what early Church theologians described as the hypostatic union of God the Father and God the Son.
However, the most important factor I think is to examine the claims of scripture that Jesus alone is the only human who can rightfully receive worship as God. To worship any other human being is idolatry.
The Trinity represents to us how an infinite God has chosen to reveal Himself to finite man in a way that makes Him comprehendible and relatable. And though there are aspects of God which are too great to experience as mortal humans (if a man could see God the Father, that man would immediately die), and there are aspects of God that we can not experience with our five natural senses (God is Spirit), God has revealed Himself to us by taking human form and entering this world not merely in the form of a person, but undergoing the entire gamut of natural processes such as conception and birth in order to be fully human in the person of Christ.
Christ Jesus, having become a man, never ceased from being a man. He is the Divine Man who is now presently in Heaven. This is one of the most astounding claims of the Bible. Jesus, having been raised from the dead, and His physical body receiving the perfection and incorruptibility that goes with this resurrected body, ascended to Heaven physically and bodily, and set down to the right hand of God the Father.
Shit-can and replace.
Who paid him?
Baloney.
Did you see “Terminator 2”?
As after the dry ice fractures the Terminator into a million pieces and then those pieces gradually accelerate in rolling back together, so I see the acceleration of stuff coming together for the wrap-up of this current age. In a few decades IMO.
Jesus said it will move quickly when it really starts to get going. I believe Ezekiel 38 could happen before the false peace deal. But that’s just my $0.02. Guess the world is gonna find out....
Yes, I had gone back to college. When that came out, I was in the theater with mostly hundreds of college students.
Boy that was a fun movie. Shoot, I even liked Alec Baldwin in “The Hunt for Red October”.
Before he was such a ......... special liberal snowflake.
LOL
“The word to believers about this is 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, ‘But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly...’”
What did they know perfectly? That Jesus will return suddenly and unexpectedly, like a thief who does not announce when he is coming beforehand.
Let us suppose that Jesus will be returning in the very near future, in our lifetimes. Let’s speculatively set the time frame to be sometime in the next 30 years. Please do not misunderstand me to be predicting or date setting. I am simply using this as an illustration of the consequences now and during the days of the apostles. Are we to assume and suppose that the apostles, such as Paul who wrote the above passage, and the Thessalonians who were the first and primary recipients of his letter, were expecting Jesus to return for them and their loved ones between 2018 and 2048?
I think such a claim is not only preposterous but has absolutely zero Biblical basis. Now, I am not making a straw-man argument, as I am not accusing you of making such an argument. I am just trying to illustrate how it is unreasonable to take a present-day belief of having figured out when Christ is coming back and then try to fit such a claim into passages such as this one in order to accommodate our present belief. That is not what the passage means.
The Thessalonians DID NOT KNOW that Jesus was not going to return in His glory in their lifetimes. They DID NOT KNOW that none of them were going to remain alive until His return or that not a single one of them would get the opportunity to live until His return by being part of the final generation of believers who will never experienced death.
Biblically, the final generation of believers will know when Christ is returning because they, like all faithful believers of previous generations, are watching and waiting for his return with anticipation. The final generation will know that Day is rapidly approaching because the signs of it will be apparent. And when those signs occur, we will also know that His return is imminent. That is, after the signs He gave us do occur, His return can only then be described as “at any moment”.
Right now we do not look for Christ by stargazing. We do not stay up late at night to look at the sky wistfully and wonder if He is about to arrive. We watch for Him by watching for the signs of His appearing. Once all of those signs have occurred, then WE WILL look up, knowing He is about to come for us.
I really thought that he was one of the sane ones.
How can someone hide what he really is in the course of his life. You have to be good at deception.
Ergo, watch out.
Warming? Every year we hear the same line, yet the warming is fractions of degrees F. They still tell us things like “a winter storm, much stronger than normal, LIKELY THE RESULT OF GLOBAL WARMING, hit the campground opposite the town of Astoria Oregon, across the Columbia river in Washington. It wiped out 10 beach ground campsites, which are now under driftwood and sand and lost forever.”
No one asks why not move the driftwood, and scrape the sand off of the asphalt pad, and begin camping again.
The Parks spokesman just says, “it is our policy that driftwood and shifting sands are part of nature. If Mother Nature wants part of HER world back, we comply”. This, with a straight face and a look of sadness.
He was given carbon credit options...
Another DT mistake needing correction...
CO2 is a poor conductor of heat. Insulate with it if you like.
Yeah, he's another one like Ryan, Gowdy, and Flake. Once reliable conservatives, now you can see the terror behind their eyes when they are on camera. Somebody got to them - maybe they only got into Congress in the first place because they were blackmail-able, but their leashes have been jerked.
Ding! Ding! Ding! That's the right answer.
Some climate projects are already scheduled. Others are planned. Still others are being fought over. And some have been scrubbed.
If they were all cancelled it would take a big chunk out of NASA's budget. And a lot of other research piggybacks on those projects.
He didn’t read enough.
Note: Another one of Oklahoma’s finest. Okie dopie.
CO2 which has increased in earth’s atmosphere from 300ppm in 1950 to 410 ppm today better not be a greenhouse gas or we are in trouble. That is an astounding increase by one third in 70 years!
And the rate of this increase is accelerating.
A very small cabal of climate scientists, based at the University of East Anglia and at Penn State University, were able to control the temperature record fed into the IPCC
reports and which comprised the foundation on which the whole global warming structure was based.
Man-made global warming is a fraud. Here is the proof.
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf
I know perfectly that it matters not about the when if you know the Christ....
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