Re: Global Warning/Climate Change
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:43 pm
Let me ask a very simple question.Bootstrap wrote:Hmmm. Maybe I'm being dense, but I really don't understand that critique. I think there is a significant risk that scientist are warning about. If it were a weather report, I would bring my jacket with me. If it's consequences of our pollution, I would pollute less. God could choose to stave off the rain, and he is certainly in control of the weather, but I don't think that God is telling me to leave the jacket at home. In either case, human knowledge is limited and the prediction might be wrong. In either case, God could choose to intervene even if we take risks that we know about. But I still think it's more prudent to act responsibly.GaryK wrote:Boot, with respect, I think you know what I'm getting at. In my mind it basically boils down to this. To be so firmly convinced that the warming is caused by humans with no possibility of it being another instance where God is changing the climate, as he has many times in the past, is limiting God and putting human reasoning ahead of Him. In one of your earlier posts you stated that "God alone controls the weather". You can't really believe that and then in essence say that humans are controlling the weather without it being a contradiction.Bootstrap wrote:Consider Genesis 2:
Why would God need Adam to work the garden of Eden and keep it? Certainly God was capable of doing that on his own! Still, I suspect there would have been consequences if Adam had not done these things. And certainly God could have prevented Adam and Eve from the forbidden fruit, but he did not.
The actions of human beings do have consequences. The Bible is clear about that. It's not because God is dependent on us.
Earlier you also stated "I don't think science is about proving or disproving God". I hope you are not saying that a lot of scientists are not trying disprove God.
Doesn't mean we have to see it the same way, but I don't understand what's wrong with that, I don't think it has anything to do with having less faith in God. My understanding of faith says that a Christian can go ahead and put on a jacket if there's a credible risk of rain. I'm not trying to poke holes in what you say - I'm having a hard time understanding it, but that's OK - but I am trying to explain the way I see it. I'm not sure if you understand what I'm saying either, though ... are we just talking past each other?
Is any scientist making a serious argument that global warming disproves God? I haven't heard that one.
Do you believe that God alone controls the weather as you stated earlier?