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Copyright: ©2007 James J. Jackson
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WORRY ABOUT SOULS, NOT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

By: James J. Jackson

Mark Twain once said, “God created Man in his own image and Man, being a generous sort, returned the favor.” Nowhere is this more evident than in the current global warming controversy.

In order to prescribe to the current belief that we are doomed because we have the audacity to use the  earthly elements God provided in order to live, feed, heat and cool ourselves,  one must either ignore what God has said, or believe that He didn‘t know what He  was doing when He created us and the world.  One glaring difference between mankind and God is that God is consistent, where mankind constantly changes our minds. God said that He created the earth for mankind, and that we were to subdue it, care for it, and have dominion over it and all life-sources.

We humans, meanwhile, can’t seem to make up our minds. For instance, in the April 28, 1975 issue of Newsweek magazine, leading climatologists warned us of a coming ice age, which would take place within 30 years from that time. As evidence, they opined that a drop of half a degree in average ground temperature had occurred between 1945 and 1968.  

They also believed that our use of fossil fuels would result in droughts, floods, dry spells and long freezes. They forecast a severe drop in food output around the globe “perhaps only 10 years from now (1975).” There was no drop in food production by 1985, nor has there been any since. Some scientists offered solutions, such as purposely melting the Artic ice cap or covering it with black soot, diverting Artic rivers, etc.  

Today, we are alerted that the ice cap is melting from “greenhouse gases,” a result of our use of the internal combustion engine.. So, within 30 years, we have gone from the threat of freezing to death to the threat of burning up, both from the same root cause, which apparently is everything mankind uses in the pursuit of happiness.  

Such agenda-driven people are careful not to let facts get in the way of their march to prove that mankind is a plague upon the earth. For instance, shortly after I left the Philippines after my first trip there, Mt. Pinatubo erupted, killing thousands and wiping out numerous towns and villages, and spewing many times more ash and pollution into the atmosphere than man has ever caused.  

When hurricane Katrina struck Mississippi and Louisiana, many experts said that this was the beginning of the end, and that such storms would increase in number and intensity from then on. The following year, about three named storms struck the U.S., causing little or no damage. Seismic activity, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, storms, pestilence, etc. have plagued the earth since sin came into the world by Adam and Eve, and will be here until Christ returns.  

God tells us to expect such things and not spend time and effort figuring out how we may have caused them. Jesus tells us in Matthew, “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come….”  

Many people cry for peace, meaning the absence of conflict. As long as we sinful humans exist in our present state, sustained peace will not occur.   

Christ also told us, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom… These are the beginning of birth pains.”  

Instead of wasting time blaming ourselves for such signs, we, who believe in God’s son, Jesus Christ, and trust in only Him for salvation, should be using the remaining time available to us to share His love and gift of eternal life with others.

"Real Answers™" furnished courtesy of The Amy Foundation Internet Syndicate. To contact the author or The Amy Foundation, write or E-mail to: P. O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901-6091; amyfoundtn@aol.com

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